Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Kim Heanue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She previously worked for several years in substance misuse, ...

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expe...

David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems think...

This ongoing series serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training...

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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the sho...

America''s latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obses...

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint fro...

This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local a...

Democratic professionalism is an approach that enables public service professionals to work more democratically with clients, patients, students an...

Robert Pinker has written extensively on social policy matters since the early 1960s. His distinct approach to understanding concepts such as welfa...

This new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism in a broad framework that marries theory, evidence, history and ...

This book examines the methods used to evaluate the value of health promotion projects and determines whether attempts to change peoples lifestyles...

What does collectivism mean in social policy? What does thinking collectively imply for policy? In this book, well-respected author Paul Spicker...

Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first ...

What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. Thi...

Drawing on a range of disciplinary, conceptual and theoretical approaches, this book analyses the complex interconnections between social policy fo...

The development of happiness as an explicit theme in social research and policy worldwide has been rapid and remarkable, posing fundamental questio...

In the context of the Care Act 2014, this third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new ...

This important book brings together valuable resources and insights in a key area of practice which has often been overlooked, and where disadvant...

The Second Edition of Social Policy and Social Change is a timely examination of the field, unique in its inclusion of both a historical analysis o...