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Mark Smith

Dr Mark Smith is senior lecturer and head of social work at the University of Edinburgh. He has previous practice experience in residential child care.
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Moral Regulation

Edited by Mark Smith

This byte teases out some of the fundamentally moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body.

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Residential Child Care in Practice

Making a Difference

This highly practical book, written by experienced practitioners and academics, is a core text about the practice of residential childcare, where workers and children share a common lifespace.

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Rethinking residential child care

Positive perspectives

The book provides a broad and critical look at policy and practice in residential child care and the ideas that have shaped the development of the sector.

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Revisiting Moral Panics

Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic.

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