David Pilgrim PhD is Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.

Most analysis of the public policy crisis of CSA focusses on perpetrators, the detection of their actions and the prevention of further criminality. This book goes beyond this to examine…

All of us will need to trust the healthcare system as well as individual healthcare workers at some point. But why do we trust ‘professionals’? Is it unconditional? As practitioners…

The emergence of Thatcherism around 1980, which ushered in a period of neo-liberalism in British politics that still resonates today, led musicians, like other artists, to respond to their context…

For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American…

This book offers evidence from a survey of the views of users of psychiatric services. The picture which emerges challenges the existing model of care and raises wider questions about…

Pilgrim’s Process is a captivating, imaginative, and witty rendition of the John Bunyan classic, Pilgrim’s Progress. This powerful allegory is packed with truth and practicals that will equip any believer…

Welcome to the world of the University of Atlantica, a world peopled by quirky students, beleaguered professors and over-bearing administrators. Add to the mix clandestine figures of dubious intent, sex…