MSc International Social & Public Policy:
Extensive background reading is not essential but it is advisable for you to do some reading before commencing the programme. The following is a list of reading that will be useful for the compulsory courses:
General stream
D Béland and R Mahon Advanced Introduction to Social Policy (Edward Elgar, 2016)
T Faist Cross-Border Migration and Social Inequalities (Annual Review of Sociology, 42: 323-346, 2016)
M Hill and F Varone The Public Policy Process, Seventh Edition (Routledge, 2017)
J Howell and J Pearce Civil Society and Development: A critical exploration (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001)
T Mkandawire (ed.) Social Policy in a Development Context (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
N Yeates (ed.) Understanding Global Social Policy, Second Edition (The Policy Press, 2014)
Development stream
Same as general stream with the addition of:
A Hall and J Midgley Social Policy for Development (London: Sage, 2004)
Education stream
Apple, M.W., Ball, S.J., Gandin, L.A. (eds) (2010) The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education. London: Routledge.
Lauder, H., Brown, P., Dillabough, J., Halsey, A.H. (eds) (2006) Education, Globalization and Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McGrath, S. Gu, Q. (eds) (2015) Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development. London: Routledge.
Halsey, A.H., Lauder, H., Brown, P., Wells, A.S. (eds) (1997) Education: Culture, Economy, Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Migration stream
Same as general stream with the addition of:
A Guveli, H Ganzeboom, L Platt, B Nauck, H Baykara-Krumme, S Eroglu, S Bayrakdar, E Keren Sozeri, N Spierings Intergenerational consequences of migration: Socio-economic, Family and Cultural Patterns of Stability and Change in Turkey and Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
NGOs stream
Same as general stream with the addition of:
D Lewis Non-governmental Organizations, Management, and Development, Third edition (London: Routledge, 2014)
Research stream
A Bryman Social Research Methods (Oxford, 2016)
J Parkhurst The Politics of Evidence: From Evidence ‐ Based Policy to the Good Governance of Evidence (Routledge, 2017)
C Robson and K McCartan Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-Researchers (Oxford, 2015)
MSc Criminal Justice Policy:
Extensive background reading is not essential but it is advisable for you to do some reading before commencing the programme. The following is a list of reading that will be useful for the compulsory course and other components of the programme.
A Liebling, S Maruna and L McAra The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 6th Edition, (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Introductory texts
Newburn, T. Crime and Criminal Justice Policy, 2nd edition (Longman, 2003)
Sanders, A., Young, R. and Burton, M. Criminal Justice, 4th edition, (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Nelken, D. Comparative Criminal Justice: Making Sense of Difference (Sage, 2010)
Carrington, K., Hogg, R., Scott, J., Sozzo, M. and Walters, R. Southern Criminology (Routledge, 2018)
Roberts, A. (2016) Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law (Routledge, 2016)
Alexander, M. (2010) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness (The New Press, 2010)
Melossi, D. Crime, Punishment and Migration (Sage, 2015)
Theoretical introduction
Reiner, R. Crime: The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept (Polity, 2016)
Please do not feel that you need to buy all these books. Indeed, before you buy any you could see if you can access them by the following means
- If you are currently registered at a university their library might have copies.
- If you live near a public library, they might be able to get hold of copies for you.
- If you have an unconditional offer, and are already based in or near London, from July to September you can have reference only access to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ library.
- When you arrive you will have access not only to the but also the vast number of electronic texts available to you by virtue of your ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ registration. For this reason we discourage you from purchasing texts which will later become freely available to you once you have enrolled. However, we appreciate that some of you may wish to gain further insight into social policy and therefore may be interested in some of the .
Whether you are buying or borrowing a book, a different edition to the one listed will be fine.