Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the de...

Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging is a language-based, interdisciplinary program that increases interaction and commun...

In exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence a...

By age 30, between 68 and 75 percent of young men in the United States, with only a high school degree or less, are fathers. This volume provides p...

Little noticed by much of the world, France, during the 1960s and 1970s, developed into one of the most generous welfare states in the world. This ...

On March 16, 1998, the CIA's Inspector General, Fred Hitz, finally let the cat out of the bag in an aside at a Congressional Hearing. Hitz told the...

How can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid,...

Winner of the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of you...

Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in commu...

To what extent does racial discrimination exist within the criminal justice system, and to what extent is that inequality in crime and justice an o...

In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of ...

Most of the research aimed at counterterrorism, fraud detection, or other forensic applications assumes that this is a specialized application doma...

In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates ...

More than 30 years after the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, it is still plagued with egregious problems. Issues of wrongful convict...

To what extent does racial discrimination exist within the criminal justice system, and to what extent is that inequality in crime and justice an o...

Victims of Crime is the ideal core textbook for victims of crime and general victims courses, and an excellent resource for researchers, practition...

This reader provides a comprehensive introduction for students studying criminology at undergraduate level. Not only does the book include 34 essen...

Police Funding, Dark Money, and the Greedy Institution is about a pervasive but little-studied phenomenon. Private funding of public police entails...

The issue if criminal behavior among our youth is deeply troubling to Americans. There appears to be a profound depression among growing numbers of...

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, fr...