Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Criminal law and criminal procedure are two distinct areas of study. Discover both and see how they work together in CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE: AN...

With an emphasis on real-world applications, CRIMINAL EVIDENCE, Eighth Edition, provides readers with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of common ...

The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become...

The gaping holes in the U.S. and Canadian social safety nets mean that many people live in a state of financial precarity that can instantly become...

Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite...

This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescent...

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full account of the arguments and issues surrounding c...

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, ...

Crime and Criminal Justice in America, Third Edition, addresses the major controversial issues in U.S. policing, courts, and the correctional syste...