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On the Frontlines of the Welfare State: How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems

On the Frontlines of the Welfare State: How the Fire Service and Police Shape Social Problems

Goetz, Barry

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138124753
ISBN13: 9781138124752
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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