Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train Stuart Turton'Compelli...

The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cul...

From experts on working with court-mandated populations, this book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can help offenders move beyond resistan...

Using real social work examples written specifically to ally student fears Research and Statistics for Social Workers brings research and statistic...

Moving Beyond Assessment: A Practical Guide for Beginning Helping Professionals is a text designed to help beginning professionals from social work...

At a time when austerity is claimed by some to be the only answer to todays economic woes, a close look at the best practices used in Scandinavia i...

Explaining Criminals and Crime is the first collection of original essays addressing theories of criminal behavior that is written at a level appro...

This is your nation's history on drugsAmericans are stumbling through a world-historic drug binge. Opiates, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, marijuan...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while ...

Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work pr...

Michael R. Gottfredson and Travish Hirschis 1990 A General Theory of Crime is a classic text that helped reshape the discipline of criminology. It ...

Already past its manufacturing heyday, Winsted, Connecticut, the Naders hometown, was wrecked by the devastating 1955 flood. For Shaf Nader, Ralphs...

Evaluation is an essential element of professional practice. However, there is little in the literature that is designed to help students involve a...