This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. It reports on interviews with 18 representatives of 11 homelessness service providers in one city in England. As Cloke et al. found, these providers...

The occupation of policing is in crisis. Criticism police failings has created intense pressure for the traditional ‘occupational closure’ model as a craft to be replaced by new ‘professional’ models associated with ‘evidence-based policing’, harm reduction, risk management and vulnerability. Various change initiatives have amounted ‘re-professionalisation’ policing, whereby previous profession...

Abstract Following decades in which professionalisation was widely assumed to be a permanent (and growing) feature of foster care England, the government signalled clear anti-professional turn its 2018 publication Fostering Better Outcomes (FBOs). This rejected notion that carers should regarded as professionals and indicated there return term parent. article analyses FBO, feeder reports eviden...

Forces at work are described which encourage professionalisation and a reliance on one on one HIV prevention interventions among gay men. Community involvement is intrinsically linked to epidemic phases; when the threat diminishes, so does the community's ability to sustain community level interventions. The area of structural and environmental interventions, which can reinforce safe behaviour ...

Regardless of the worldwide acknowledgement importance community development, challenge professional occupational recognition remains, intensified by lack practitioner profile data. Raising practice standards through standardised, cohesive and effective movements drives professionalism, guided a policy framework that describes its practitioners’ ethical code, standardised quality-assured knowle...