Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

The New Structural Social Work presents a coherent and consistent theory of progressive social work. With oppression as its central focus, the text...

Social Security auxiliary benefits were established in 1939 when Congress extended benefits to the dependents and survivors of workers covered by S...

Congress continues to register concern about the rapid rise in Medicare spending and the ability of existing funding mechanisms to support the prog...

In nearly all States, adoption records are sealed and withheld from public inspection after an adoption is finalised. This book discusses state law...

This book provides an overview of the current Social Security special minimum benefit provision workings; explains how the Retirement Earnings Test...

International Social Security agreements are bilateral agreements primarily intended to eliminate dual Social Security taxation based on the same w...

In the midst of current debates about the accessibility of public spaces, resurfacing as a result of highly visible demonstrations and occupations,...

Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost th...

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level...

Since publication of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Housing in 1998, many issues have assumed special prominence within this field and, indeed,...

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveli...

What is the state? And what's it ever done for you?More than you think.The state houses us, educates us, employs us, protects us on the street and ...

Kim Heanue is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She previously worked for several years in substance misuse, ...

Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expe...