Social Services & Welfare, Criminology
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Placed at Risk by the System: The Educational Vulnerability of Children & Youth in Foster Care
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99The book''''s premise is that not only do children and youth in foster care comprise a population very much at risk for school failure but also tha...
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Rehoming of Adopted Children: Addressing Unregulated Custody Transfers
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €85.55Original price €91.99Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...
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The Intercountry Adoption Debate: Dialogues Across Disciplines
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €82.64Original price €86.99Meaningful discussion about intercountry adoption (the adoption of a child from one country by a family from another country) necessitates an under...
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Love and Mayhem: One Big Family''s Uplifting Story of Fostering and Adoption
John DeGarmoCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Many people say being a parent is the toughest job there is. John DeGarmo, foster and adoptive parent, tells us just how tough it can be, having pa...
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Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A mercy to all
Shafiq MortonCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Imtiaz Sooliman, a medical doctor practising in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visited a Shaikh in Istanbul in 1992. The Sufi teacher gave him a m...
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Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia: International Lessons and Policy Implications
Bristol University PressCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term str...
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement
David A. WiseCurrent price €124.99Original price €138.88Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives ...
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Implementing Innovative Social Investment: Strategic Lessons from Europe
Bristol University PressCurrent price €31.61Original price €33.99Introduction and conclusion available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deployin...
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SADC - The Southern Arrested Development Community?: Enduring Challenges to Peace and Security in Southern Africa
Michael AebyCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99Current price €20.01Original price €21.99Save 9% -
Pandora''s Dilemma: Theories of Social Welfare for the 21st Century
David StoeszCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50What are the challenges facing social welfare in America? Theories of stakeholders, the policy process, electoral politics, the precariat, child we...
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Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €90.89Original price €100.99Fundamental questions about the morality of pediatric medical research persist despite years of debate and the establishment of strict codes of eth...
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The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State
Nicholas TimminsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
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Understanding Social Security: Issues for Policy and Practice
Bristol University PressCurrent price €34.37Original price €39.50The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised,...
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The Crisis of Democracy: In the Advanced Industrial Economies
Robert CorfeCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50Problems confronting the financial-industrial system, or the ills of the casino economy, have never been more urgent than they are today. This is b...
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Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
Guy StandingCurrent price €16.28Original price €17.50'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...
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Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State
Chris RenwickCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most p...
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How Social Security Works: An Introduction to Benefits in Britain
Paul SpickerCurrent price €26.55Original price €29.50Current price €26.55Original price €29.50Save 10% -
Social Security Sense: A guide to claiming benefits for those age 60-70
Dana AnspachCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Current price €13.27Original price €15.99Save 17% -
Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives
Benjamin HenwoodCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began ...
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The Undeserving Poor: America''s Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Michael B. KatzCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about pove...
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The Girl Without a Voice: The true story of a terrified child whose silence spoke volumes
Casey WatsonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems. ...
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