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1. Children’s Food Practices in Families and Institutions

   Edited by Samantha Punch, Ian McIntosh, Ruth Emond

   This book brings together recent UK studies into children’s experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current policy and practice perspectives. It reveals that food works not only on a material level as sustenance but also on a symbolic level as something that...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth

   Young Rural Lives

   Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely...

   Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge
3. Police Corruption

   Exploring Police Deviance and Crime

   By Maurice Punch

   Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For...

   Published May 31st 2009 by Willan
4. Qualitative Educational Research in Action

   Doing and Reflecting

   Edited by Tom O'Donoghue, Keith Punch

   Qualitative research is a key form of research in education; the findings of such projects frequently play a central role in shaping policy and practice. First time qualitative researchers require clear and practical guidance from the outset. However, given the diversity of both subject matter and...

   Published February 26th 2003 by Routledge