Social Welfare & Social Services

This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, and recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence. The a...

In a unique effort, this book brings together, for the first time, scholarly analyses by eminent researchers of the historical, social, legal, and ...

This book explores how the cultural process of making any disease a plague results in discrimination against certain groups, as it has for those wi...

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Who would go to prison on purpose?Incarcerated Resistance tells the stories of 43 activists from the School of the Americas Watch and Plowshares mo...

Gender-Based Perspectives on Batterer Programs responds to the intense debate about the approach and effectiveness of batterer programs, especially...

Current foreign aid programs are failing because they are based upon flawed assumptions about how countries develop. They attempt to achieve develo...

Children in all educational levels are vulnerable to abuse, neglect, bullying, violence in their homes and neighborhoods, and other traumatic life ...

Als Mitarbeiter im Gesundheitsberuf sind Sie häufiger mit anspruchsvollen Patienten konfrontiert. Der Autor zeigt mit Praxistipps und Beispielen, w...

The first scholarly monograph to bring critical sociological analysis of arts programmes to the work of youth arts practice.

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and ...

This book examines the development of enterprise among key migrant groups in Europe and the United States. It argues that the development of 'ethni...

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This ...

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of...

What determines Europe's migrant policies and where does the EU fit into this picture? This book is a comparative analysis of the impact of the EU,...

This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conc...

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years. This book offers a full understanding of the ins...

This book explores the origins of the so-called 'punitive turn' in penal policy across Western nations over the past two decades. It demonstrates h...

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple...

Throughout the world, governments and intergovernmental organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration are developing new appr...

A nurse inserts an I.V. A personal care attendant helps a quadriplegic bathe and get dressed. A nanny reads a bedtime story to soothe a child to sl...

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global...

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Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and soc...