Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

This handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people across different countries, focusing on importan...

This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the ent...

It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainmen...

Its hard to escape the feeling that in Britain today nothing works. In the face of mounting inflation and widespread industrial action, this book o...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

This book is about tax and social policy and how they interact with each other. The impact of taxation as an instrument of social policy is centr...

For more than four decades, free market economists and right-wing politicians have touted Hong Kong as a model of capitalism and a market economy s...

The main goal of this text is to introduce the systems approach to disasters management community as an alternative approach that can provide suppo...

Strippers may be the main attraction of strip clubs, but their work is bolstered by people who are rarely meaningfully considered: those who organi...

It is widely acknowledged that todays dementia care needs improving, so what is holding it back? Dementia consultant Anne Ellett draws on her exten...

What makes a serial killer? How do you spot one? Is there any way of truly knowing?David Canter asked the same questions whilst developing the new ...

Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is. To help prepare yo...

This report examines the disaster resilience efforts of the executive and legislative branches of government and public-private partnerships. Its r...

Who is a victim? Considerations of innocence typically figure in our notions of victimhood, as do judgments about causation, responsibility, and ha...