Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle Gunness? Or Nannie Doss? Women have committed so...

Authored by leading scholars in the field, this handbook delves into the intricate matter of digital evidence collection, adopting a comparative an...

Working with Communities examines the critical ideas about community work and associated concepts such as social inclusion, social capital, communi...

The advent of the Internet for global advancement and development has opened the world to new crimes. This is the first comprehensive book on the s...

This book is for concerned members of the public, and for anyone dealing clinically with women who drink alcohol before, during and/or after pregna...

Warum und wie wird jemand zu einem sogenannten Islamisten oder zu einer Islamistin? Wieso, auf welche Weise und wann erfolgen Distanzierungen von s...

Detrás del silencio: Empoderando a los jóvenes cuidadores es una exploración profunda y reveladora del mundo poco conocido de los jóvenes cuidadore...

For readers of THE TEACHER'S PET and MISSING WILLIAM TYRELL. It's the maxim that every true-crime lover knows: One infant's death in a family is a ...

This book summarizes the new economic phenomenon and problems of rural families in China from the perspective of relative poverty. Based on the dat...

This book critically engages criminal law issues relating to sexuality and violence in order to argue that an attention to emotions can produce a m...

'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing That...

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime...

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more ...

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of Los Muchachos, one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizatio...

In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire began in a kitchen on the fourth floor of a twenty-four-storey block of flats in West London. A fire t...

This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspe...

The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Mur...

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (M...

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (M...

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private univers...