Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

This book examines a participatory approach in child protection practices in both Norway and the United States, despite key organizational differen...

This sophomore/junior level core text is intended for the juvenile delinquency course taught in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology depart...

The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an insider and an outsider view of the ‘Milltown Boys’, exploring the nature of an...

Originally published in 1982 Cheats at Work looks at occupations from an anthropological point of view, using a similar format to analysis of cultu...

Helping to Promote Social Justice is a richly informed and practical guide for advanced students and young professionals to become helpers capable ...

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults’ ability to learn. Wit...

The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present-day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is...

This collection provides a deep engagement with the political implication of Black Lives Matter. This book covers a broad range of topics using a v...

Activists, policymakers, and scholars in the US have called for policy reform and evidence-based efforts to decrease the number of people in jail a...

A Criminologist’s Life: Essays in Honor of the Criminological Legacy of Francis T. Cullen honors the vast scholarly contributions of Francis T. "Fr...

This book offers unique interdisciplinary insights into developing connections between reflective practice and employability particularly through t...

This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. As well as mediators, this work will be indispensable for practitioners and scholars across...

Women in Policing provides an insight into women's role within policing, their emergence, and development, offering a theoretical underpinning to e...

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe...

This timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults’ ability to learn. Wit...

This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by...

An important classic, familiar to virtually all criminologists, Clinard and Quinney’s Criminal Behavior Systems: A Revised Edition begins with a di...

Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy sch...

Foregrounding the voices of women who have survived experiences of domestic sex trafficking in the US, this text implements qualitative research me...

Originally published in 1986, this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the sig...

Sexual Misconduct in any environment is a gross abuse of trust and this is no different within the sport world. Examining and Mitigating Sexual Mis...

This innovative text explains child development from a cross-cultural perspective. Using examples to illuminate key points, it considers a range of...

Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since ...

How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical ...