Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

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...

Community and Human Services: Concepts for Practice offers an introduction to the key concepts, theories and perspectives of community and human se...

The Open Door: Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness in the Era of Community Treatment explains how and why homelessness among the mentally ill ha...