On the Frontlines of the Welfare State

How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-12475-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.

Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows how public safety agencies function as welfare state agencies, responsible for a range of essential public functions including emergency service, criminal investigation, regulatory oversight and social service outreach. Furthermore, this volume shows how public safety agencies are being asked to absorb more social welfare functions amidst cut-backs in other areas of the welfare state. Two areas of public safety are examined: arson control and fire prevention, especially within the contexts of urban change and gentrification, and community policing, especially as a mechanism of expanding drug treatment service and prevention programs.

Facilitating a greater understanding of institutional biases within the state built around organizational structures, procedures and cultures and their impact on social outcomes, this original and exciting book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Policing and Fire Control, Public Policy and Administration, Drugs and Substance Abuse and White Collar Crime.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goetz, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface & Acknowledgements List of Figures Chapter 1: The Fire Service, Police, & The Local Welfare State Chapter 2: Institutional Selectivity Chapter 3: Fire As A Social Problem Chapter 4: Fires, Arson & Institutional Selectivity Chapter 5: Local Policing, the Welfare State, and Drug Control Chapter 6: Community Policing and Institutional Selectivity Chapter 7: Public Safety Agencies, Dimensions Of Power, & The Shaping Of Social Problems Bibliographic References Inclusive to Individual Chapters

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Goetz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University.