Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financ...

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Out-of-School Learning documents what the best research has revealed about out-of-school learning: what facilitates or ham...

Drawing on a wide array of policy domains and events, this book provides an innovative account of social control and behaviourism within welfare sy...

Exam Board: Pearson BTECAcademic Level: BTEC NationalSubject: Health and Social Care First teaching: September 2016First Exams: Summer 2017     Our...

Massey University was the first New Zealand university to offer a social work degree, 40 years ago. This book is published to mark this milestone. ...

AN INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FOR SOCIAL WORK STUDENTSAll social work students face decisions about where they will undertake the minimum120 days of field...

With the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the US government ushered in a new era of social welfare policies, to counteract the devastati...

Your hands-on guide to dealing with dementia within the UK healthcare system If a loved one has recently been diagnosed with dementia, Dementia For...

Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by ...

What is emotional neglect? How does it affect children and the adults they become? What can we do to help?In The Simple Guide to Emotional Neg...

An irresistibly moving, funny and urgent memoir about the reality of caring for your parents, when you can barely care for yourself.Hilarious, bitt...

An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris the collapse of Greensill Capital is a billion pound scandal that shredded the reputation of a Br...

**THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER, NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE GANGLAND TRIAL OF THE CENTURY**On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood w...

Do your students understand the job of a criminal profiler? Yes, they see them nightly on tv shows and in the news, but do they have a real underst...

Offering practical strategies and tools readers can use on the job, this comprehensive book covers the practices, conditions, and legislative issue...

Praise for the first edition: The content of the book is excellent.... The strength lies in its detailed application of ideas to practice. The us...

Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch examine the emergence of urban ghettos of the socially dependent--an unforeseen solution to the problem of developi...

Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communica...