Key Concepts in Childhood Studies - Paperback

Adrian James is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He trained and practised as a probation officer and was subsequently extensively involved in their training. After becoming an academic in 1978, he researched and published widely in the field of socio-legal studies, including the completion of two major ESRC-funded projects on child welfare and divorce. Appointed as Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Bradford in 1998, he became Professor of Social Work at the University of Sheffield in September 2004, during which time he was also Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. He was a Special Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on the Lord Chancellor′s Department when it scrutinised the work of the Children And Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) in 2002-03. His recent books include Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice (co-authored with Allison James and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2004), The Child Protection Handbook, Elsevier/Ballière-Tindall, London/Edinburgh, 2007 (3rd. edn) (joint editor with K. Wilson), and European Childhoods: Cultures, Politics and Childhoods in Europe (edited with Allison James and published in 2008 by Palgrave). The first edition of Key Concepts in Childhood Studies (also with Allison James) was published by SAGE in 2008.