Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Social work and social development in the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow in new and exciting ways. Social work educators are an essential par...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the cont...

Rivetingan electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful and multifaceted, The Gotti Wars cant be missed. E...

What kinds of care are being offered or withdrawn by the welfare state? What does this mean for the caring practices and interventions of local act...

Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, puni...

Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award 2023'Blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny' Daily Telegraph'Enough to make you die la...

'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'Belinda Black was just seve...

'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' GEORGE MONBIOT'This extraordinary book, written with startling honesty...

'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible' In equa...

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death...