Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International t...

Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organisations involved in risk a...

This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the “usual” mold for research--white, married or widowed, ur...

Good Practice in Child Protection is a timely practical handbook for use by all professionals who work with child abuse cases as they get to grips ...

Drawing heavily on original research designed to train police officers to survive deadly encounters, Profiling Cop-Killers examines the sociologica...

Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and proced...

This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and S...

Uniting the best of Michael Fagel and Jennifer Hesterman's books in the fields of homeland security and emergency management, the editors of this v...

This excellent, informative and well presented, a book provides the reader with fourteen edited chapters covering an area of policy and practice th...

New Directions in Criminological Theory focuses on new approaches to theory construction, with particular emphasis on reformulations and new applic...

Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy challenges therapists, public policymakers, voters, and those in the criminal justice syst...

It costs more to place a child in the care of a local authority than it does to send a child to a top boarding school, and there are substantial va...

Few of the many defensive tactics books on the market include the training and methods of martial arts. Drawing on the centuries-old techniques of ...

Based on the popular courses run by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, and written by leading figures working in the field of eviden...

Work within the human services is increasingly influenced by rights-based thinking, and this book offers advice for the practitioner on how to tran...

Reminiscence is a vital way to stimulate communication and promote confidence and self-worth in people with dementia. This practical guide is desig...

This key text covers the knowledge and skills that social workers need to get into practice with children and families. The book covers core compon...

Professional Risk and Working with People provides advice on assessing and managing risks for all those employed to take risks with or on behalf of...

This latest, enhanced and updated edition will help guide the thinking of those challenged with aging in the family. Since the last edition in 2006...

Research Methods in Africana Studies is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African d...

The sensational story of a girl's tragic death and the whirlwind of racial prejudices that came in its wake.On Boxing Day 2005, fifteen-year-old Ja...

This handbook provides guidance for all practising social work professionals, and the staff who support them, on the post-qualifying (PQ) framework...

Although the literature and cultural practices of the South Asian region demonstrate a rich understanding of criminology, this handbook is the firs...

Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and proced...

In the final decades of the 20th century, a confluence of factors precipitated a policy change in the criminal justice arena that led to unpreceden...

An unflinching analysis of one of the major issues of our time — the shift from criminalization to regulation of recreational drugs. The “war on dr...

Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation acro...

This groundbreaking book on the gender-inclusive treatment of intimate partner abuse has been fully updated to reflect new and refined evidence-bas...

Everyday Prison Governance in Myanmar analyses prison life in Myanmar during a short-lived period of democratic transition. The accounts of former ...