Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

COVID-19 has transformed the British welfare state. The government has created millions of new beneficiaries, spent tens of billions of pounds it d...

This unique resource, informed by both research and practice, is designed not only to help people understand autism spectrum conditions, but to giv...

Through a practical introduction to the policies of the American welfare state-a wide-ranging subject much discussed but seldom described-this conc...

Updated with nine new end-of-chapter case studies and more than 50 new boxed examples, the Third Edition of Joel Best''s Social Problems elucidates...

Groups are a universal phenomenon, but their dynamics, make-up and customs can vary widely a group can be anything from a family to a sports club....

Good writing skills are essential for study, but many students find that they struggle to write well. Written especially for health and social care...

With the Conservative Party breaking new ground in forming a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, this book examines the development an...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

The public services and care being provided to our veteran citizens are rapidly changing due to the increasing number of veterans that live in o...

Keep your government hands off my Medicare! Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: why...

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté?, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II bat...

Care has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence o...

What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all childrenbut al...

High economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most conspicuous characteristics of the postwar Japanese political econom...

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...

The Chinese Communist welfare state was established with the goal of eradicating income inequality. But paradoxically, it actually widened the inco...