Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Alex is an alligator who has experienced 'scary' things. In this charmingly illustrated story, he talks about how this affects him and how he copes...

Father. Husband. Hitman. He lost it all - he'll kill to get it back.Perfect read for fans of Breaking Bad and Stephen King.*GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND...

Integrating Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice shows counseling and other mental health professionals ho...

Embodied Social Justice introduces an embodied approach to working with oppression. Grounded in current research, the book integrates key findings ...

Increasingly there is global attention on the prevalence of womens deaths resulting from intimate partner violence. Campaigns such as Counting Dead...

Clear, comprehensive approach to crime prevention introduces undergraduates to the breadth of this field, showing students how to assess tactics...

Large-Scale Evacuation introduces the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modelling for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards tha...

This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. Th...

No one wants to put an aging relative in a home. But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an olde...

A Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen's research studies of magistrates' courts and women's imprisonmen...

This volume presents the rich and provocative historical, theoretical, methodological, and applied developments within affirmative postmodern and p...

Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, ethnic cleansing are terms which in recent years have entered common usage. The worst cases of these...

People professions - such as social work, teaching, nursing, ministry and counselling - are at heart ethical or moral enterprises. Much recent theo...

Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous...

Successful integrative practice begins at the nexus of intrapersonal and interpersonal levels of macro practice, and requires a nuanced sensitivity...

In social sciences, education, and public health research, researchers often conduct small pilot studies (or may have planned for a larger sample b...