Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025‘Ootlin is proof that there is part of [Fagan] that is always whole, tapped into the cosmos, looking towa...

Homes in Crisis Capitalism explores the core social reproduction role that individual households fulfil in our societies, and the class and racial ...

Austerity is a concise, accessible overview of austerity policies, their impact on society, and possible alternatives for more just and equitable e...

First published in 1975, Social Work, Ageing and Society provides a basic understanding of the needs of older people in society. It deals with the ...

I could've died a thousand times. People were out to get me, as they always are when you run the show.It's kind of silly that it's cancer that's go...

This book examines the potential impact of rape survivors’ traumatic experiences in post-conflict zones. With specific attention given to the exper...

Campaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. I...

For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was involved in almost every major campaign of the U.S. Left in the first two thirds of the twentieth century. An outstandin...

This is the first study to address the important but neglected topic of how women return to the "free world" after single or multiple experiences o...

Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date description and analysis of the housing and neighborhood problems facing residents of the nation's largest cit...

Describes life inside the world's largest women's prison, from the point of view of the women themselves.The first book-length treatment of the nat...

Examines the experiences of Latina and Latino prisoners in New York maximum security prisons, offering a realistic interpretation of the relationsh...

A fascinating profile of female homicide offenders emerges from this analysis of the characteristics of women murderers in six cities in the United...

The relationship between alcohol and homicide in America is explored both historically and theoretically, providing the groundwork for two empirica...

An examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variablesFerraro ...

This book analyzes the sources and results of the fourfold increase in the U.S. correctional population since 1970. It considers the following them...

Theories of criminality and theories of victimization have traditionally been discussed as though they bore no relationship to one another. Yet, a ...

This book addresses the cross-cultural variations in the conceptions of face and facework from a multidisciplinary communication perspective. Face...