Contents List ARTICLES PAGE Paul Cooper and Jon Murphy: Ethnical Approaches for Police Officers when Working with Informants in the Development of Criminal Intelligence in the United Kingdom 1 Stein Ringen and Brendan Halpin: Children, Standard of Living and Distributions in the Family 21 Bob Deacon and Michelle Hulse: The Making of Post-Communist Social Pol icy: The Role of International Agencies 4 3 Arnon Bar-On: Criminalising Survival: Images and Reality of Street Children 63 Andrew A. F. Cameron: In Search of the Voluntary Sector: a review article 79 Julian Le Grand: Knights, Knaves or Pawns? Human Behaviour and Social Policy 149 Peter Taylor-Gooby: In Defence of Second-best Theory: State, Class and Capital in Social Policy 171 Hartley Dean and Zafar Khan : Muslim Perspectives on Welfare 193 Julia Twigg: Deconstructing the ‘Social Bath’: Help with Bathing at Home for Older and Disabled People 211 Miri Song and Rosaund Edwards: Comment: Raising Questions About Perspectives on Black Lone Motherhood 233 Carol Smart: Wishful Thinking and Harmful Tinkering? Sociological Reflections on Family Policy 301 Paul Henman: Computer Technology—a Political Player in Social Policy Processes 323 Gail Wilson: A Postmodern Approach to Structured Dependency Theory 341 Giuliano Bonou : Classifying Welfare States: A Two-dimension Approach 351 Pauline Stoltz: Single Mothers and the Dilemmas of Universal Social Policies 425 Elizabeth Jagger: The Production of Official Discourse on ‘Glue-Sniffing’ 44 5 Huck-Ju Kwon: Beyond European Welfare Regimes: Comparative Perspectives on East Asian Welfare Systems 467 Teppo Kroger: The Dilemma of Municipalities: Scandinavian Approaches to Child Day-care Provision 485 SOCIAL POLICY DIGEST Fran Bennett 89,245,373,509 REVIEW ARTICLE Stewart Macpherson: Social Exclusion 533 REVIEWS John Baldock and Margaret May: Social Policy Review 7, Social Policy Association, London, 1995 (Stephen Sinclair) 111 The Commission on the Future of Voluntary Action: Meeting the Challenge: Voluntary Action into the 21st Century (Gary Craig) 113 Vic George and Peter Taylor-Gooby: European Welfare Policy: Squaring the Welfare Circle (Norman Ginsburg) 114 Niels Ploug and Jon Kvist: Social Security in Europe, Development or Dismantlement.^ (Deborah Mabbett) 116 Anne Helene Gauthier: The State and the Family: A Comparative Analysis of Family Policies in Industrial Countries (Mary Daly) 118 Robin Humphrey (ed.): Families Behind the Headlines (Christine McGuire) 119 Karen Clarke, Gary Craig and Caroune Glendinning: Small Change: The Impact of the Child Support Act on Lone Mothers and Children (Carol Stimson) 120 Anne Digby and John Stewart: Gender, Health and Welfare (Sarah Payne) 121 David Marsland: Welfare or Welfare State? Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy (Duncan B, Forrester) 122 Theda Skocpol: Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective (Geoffrey Cook) 124 Sue Goss and Chris Kent: Health and Housing: Working Together? A Review of the Extent of Interagency Working (Norman Johnson) 125 Janie Percy-Smith (ed.): Needs Assessments in Public Policy (David S. Gordon) 127 Tom Begg: Housing Policy in Scotland (Annette O’Carroll) 128 Steve Leach, Howard Davies and Associates: Enabling or Disabling Local Government (Tony Byrne) 129 Jane Kelsey: Economic Fundamentalism (Stephen Jenkins) 130 Ken Blakemore and Robert Drake: Understanding Equal Opportunity Policies (Celia Davies) 131 Michael Sullivan: The Development of the British Welfare State (Michael Cahill) 133 Neil Lunt and Douglas Coyle (eds.): Welfare and Policy: Research Agendas and Issues (Alex Robertson) 134 Sheying Chen: Social Policy of the Economic State and Community Care in Chinese Culture (Brian Brewer) 136 Sarah Jarvis and Stephen P. Jenkins: Do the Poor Stay Poor? New Evidence about Income Dynamics from the British Household Panel Survey (Michael Noble) 137 John Hills (ed.): New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom (Ken Judge) 138 Tony Eardley antd Anne Corden: Low Income Self Employment (Steve Webb) 140 Lorraine Greaves: Smoke Screen. Women’s Smoking and Social Control (Alan Marsh) 141 JuuA Brannen and Margaret O’Brien (eds.): Children in Families. Research and Policy (Karen Clarke) 142 Janet Allbeson: Failing the Test: CAB Clients’ Experience of the Habitual Residence Test in Social Security (Michael Adler) 144 Catherine Hakim: Key Issues in Women’s Work: Female Heterogeneity and the Polarisation of Women’s Employment, London (Michael Rose) 146 Margaret May, Edward Brunsdon and Gary Craig (eds.): Social Policy Review 8 (GaH Wilson) 267 Robert M. Page: Altruism and the British Welfare State (Martin Hewitt) 268 Gosta Esping-Andersen (ed.): Welfare States in Transition: National Adaptations in Global Economics (Stephen James) 2 70 David Taylor (ed.): Critical Social Policy: A Reader (Sue Penna) 273 Pete Alcock: Social Policy in Britain (David Taylor) 274 Brian Nolan and Christopher Whelan: Resources, Deprivation and Poverty (Anthony McCashin) 276 Bill Jordan: A Theory of Poverty and Social Exclusion (Katherine Duffy) 277 Nirmala Rao: Towards Welfare Pluralism: Public Services in a Time of Change (Robert Mears) 2 80 Gerald Wistow, Martin Knapp, Brian Hardy, Juleen Forder, Jeremy Kendall and Rob Manning: Social Care Markets: Progress and Prospects (John Baldock) 281 Tim Lee: The Search for Equity: The Funding of Additional Educational Needs under LMS Qennifer Evans) 283 Linda Hantrais and Marie-Therese Letablier: Families and Family Policies in Europe (Helen Barnes) 284 Jonathan Bradshaw, Steven Kennedy, Majella Kilkey, Sandra Hutton, Anne Corden, Tony Eardley, Hilary Holmes and Joanna Neale: The Employment of Lone Parents: a Comparison of Policy in 20 Countries (Simon Duncan) 285 Sandy Ruxton: Children in Europe (Jane Millar) 286 Elaine Kempson: Life on a Low Income (Alison Gamham) 287 Hartley Dean (ed.): Ethnics and Social Policy Research (Jill Vincent) 288 Suzanne MacGregor and Arthur Lipow (eds.): The Other City: People and Politics in New York and London (Chris Miller) 288 Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Paul Johnson (eds.): Ageing and Social Policy: Global Comparisons (Ruth Hancock) 289 Alan Walker and Lorna Warren: Changing Services for Older People (Fiona Ross) 290 Jon Kvist and Adrian Sinfield: Comparing Tax Routes in Denmark and the 17.K. (Margaret Wilkinson) 291 Len Barton (ed.): Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights (Cynthia Martin) 292 David Willetts: Blair's Gurus: An Examination of Labour’s Rhetoric (Emma Heron) 293 Denise Magill and Sarah Rose (eds.): Fair Employment Law in Northern Ireland: Debates and Issues Qulia O’Connor) 294 Eithne McLaughun and Padraic Qltrk (eds.): Policy Aspects of Employment Equality in Northern Ireland Qulia O’Connor) 294 John McVey and Nigel Hutson (eds.): Public Views and Experiences of Fair Employment and Equality Issues in Northern Ireland (Julia ’Connor) 294 Eleabeth Bortolaia Silva (ed.): Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood (Ann Shola Orlofi) 296 Norman Dennis: The Invention of Permanent Poverty (Paul Spicker) 397 Jeremy Kendall and Martin Knapp: The Voluntary Sector in the United Kingdom (Jane Lewis) 399 David N. Thomas: Oil on Troubled Waters. The Gulbenkien Foundation and Social Welfare (Jane Lewis) 399 Robert Whelan: The Corrosion of Charity (Graham Bowpit) 401 Rudolf Klein, Patricia Day and Sharon Redmayne: Managing Scarcity (John Butler) 402 Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer (eds.): Exploring the Divide (Anne Borsay) 403 Ann Wall (ed.): Health Care Systems in Liberal Democracies (Pat Fairfoot) 404 Irwin Miller: American Health Care Blues (Pat Fairfoot) 404 Ruth Levitas and Will Guy (eds.): Interpreting Official Statistics (Sandra Winn) 405 Jane Pilcher and Stephen Wagg (eds.): Thatcher's Children? (Lorraine Waterhouse) 406 Andrew Nocon and Hazel Qureshi: Outcomes of Community Care for Users and Carers (Melanie Henwood) 408 SuzAN Lewis and Jeremy Lewis (eds.): The Work-Family Challenge: Rethinking Employment (Angela Dale) 409 Audrey Mullender: Rethinking Domestic Violence (Lorraine Radford) 410 Gerald Daly: Homeless (Hartley Dean) 411 Anthony McCashin: Lone Mothers in Ireland (Rosalind Edwards) 413 Mark Shucksmith, Polly Chapman, Gill M. Clark with Stuart Black and Ed Conway: Rural Scotland Today: The Best of Both Worlds (Duncan Scott) 414 Alan Bruce and Ernst Jonsson: Competition in the Provision of Health Care (David Hughes) 416 David Blane, Eric Brunner and Richard Wilkinson (eds.): Health and Social Organisation: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century (David Hughes) 416 Catherine Peussier Kingfisher: Women in the American Welfare Trap (Ruth Lister) 418 Brian Lund: Housing Problems and Housing Policy (Norman Ginsburg) 420 Sheryl R. Tynes: Turning Points in Social Security: From ‘Cruel Hoax’ to ‘Sacred Entitlement ’ (Charles Atherton) 422 A. H. Halsey: No Discouragement: An Autobiography (David Donnison) 543 Pat Thane: Foundations of the Welfare State (Rodney Lowe) 545 Harriet Jones and Michael Kandiah (eds.): The Myth of Consensus (Nicholas Deakin) 547 Charles Webster: The Health Services Since the War, Vol II Qulian Le Grand) 548 Christa Altenstetter and James Warner Bjorkman (eds.): Health Policy Reform, National Variations and Globalization (Rudolph Klein) 550 Robert Flynn and Gareth Wiluams (eds.): Contracting for Health (Howard Glennerster) 551 Graham Riches: First World Hunger (Tim Lang) 553 Michael King: A Better World For Children (Lorraine Harding) 554 Michael B. Katz and Christopher Sachsse (eds.): The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare (Richard Parry) 556 Herbert Giersch (ed.): Reforming the Welfare State (Jochen Clasen) 557 Lester M. Salamon and Helmut K. Anheier (eds.): Defining the Nonprofit Sector (Norman Johnson) 559 Jane Falhngham, Jeni Klugman, Sheila Marnie and John Micklewright (eds.): Household Welfare in Central Asia (Richard Marquiss) 562 David A. Moss: Socializing Security (Isabela Mares) 563 Brian Monday and Peter Ely (eds.): Social Care in Europe (Susan Tester) 566 Richard Disney: Can We Afford to Grow Older? (Ian Shaw) 567 Erich Goode: Between Politics and Reason (Arthur Gould) 569