Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

The new edition of this popular guide offers lively and clear descriptions of basic techniques for attaining group success. Detailed discussion of ...

Social Theory, Social Change and Social Work has two inter-related themes. First to account for and analyse current changes in social work and seco...

Joan Aldous does not just give us an update of her influential 1978 version of Family Careers but provides us with a rethinking of the whole approa...

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style...

On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of £2,500,000 (the equivalent of £41 mi...

U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies,...

Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. In Am...

This book brings together a group of feminist activists, psychologists, and peace workers from countries on every continent who describe how they a...

Analyzing the critical juncture of family-centered policy and practice, this book places the universal institution of the family in a global contex...

Originally published in 1976, Freedom and the Welfare State, critiques the Welfare State in Britain and analyses the relationship between freedom a...

"Stigma, shame and hardship---this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll m...

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the...

Social work research is concerned with complex social issues closely connected to communities of people who are marginalized and oppressed. This vo...

This is a superbly practical book about group treatment for adults who suffered childhood trauma. It reminds us that physical abuse and sexual abus...

The transition to adulthood for many is mediated by class, culture, and local/global influences on identity. This volume analyzes the global injust...

The fourth edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work continues to teach students to apply micro, macro, and mezzo social work skills. This ...

This essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology-a structured, short-term problem-solving approach-applicable across systems at five leve...

This is a superbly practical book about group treatment for adults who suffered childhood trauma. It reminds us that physical abuse and sexual abus...

This concise and engaging book presents a critical perspective on the correctional system and the process of incarceration in the United States. Fl...