Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Unsettling Colonial Automobilities explores the vehicle's role in imposing colonialism on Indigenous people and proposes an Indigenous automobility...

This book informs social work students about the context and potential for burnout in their field experience, their first work with clients, and eq...

Get a frontline look at the field of corrections with Maroun/Siegel/Bartollas' CORRECTIONS TODAY, 5th EDITION. This more concise, visual paperback ...

Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite thi...

The Art of Investigation examines the qualities required to be a professional, thorough, and effective investigator. As the title suggests, it delv...

Don your disposable gloves and plastic booties and step past the DO NOT ENTER tape into Crime Scene Investigation: Puzzle Unit, the perfect book fo...

The true story of London's toughest, deadliest street gangs: the events, the rules and the real top boys. Are the streets of London some of the dea...

What do the stories youth in state care tell about life in their family of origin? What stories do they tell us about coming into care, living in c...

'Absolutely thrilling' ALEX MICHAELIDES, bestselling author of The Silent Patient'A superior, creeping psychological thriller taut with tension and...

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo El Chapo Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitzs revelatory ...

Broken Three Times is a narrative nonfiction book that chronicles one family's travails through the child welfare system. While this is the story o...

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other disorderly people continue to occupy public space in many Ame...

Poor Justice: How the Poor Fare in the Courts provides a vivid and informative account of what happens when the legal system decides cases in areas...

Austin Sarat's The Social Organization of Law: Introductory Readings begins with a simple premise--law seeks to work in the world, to order, change...