Social Welfare & Social Services

This book summarizes the new economic phenomenon and problems of rural families in China from the perspective of relative poverty. Based on the dat...

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across nineteen countries, drawing on themes of crime...

Dementia is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Responding to the global dementia challenge, however, affects more ...

In the early hours of 14th June 2017, a fire began in a kitchen on the fourth floor of a twenty-four-storey block of flats in West London. A fire t...

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (M...

With 75% new material, the fully revised third edition of this clinical reference and text describes ways to integrate motivational interviewing (M...

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private univers...

This book is unique in its presentation of social protection scenarios in four different continents: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. It has speci...

This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imag...

The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street sit...

This book outlines both the theory and application of regulation intervention strategies for children with complex trauma history. National statist...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens economic, he...

Two recent developments created a need for this book, the first is the ratification of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with...

This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Blac...

This book discusses legal services clinics and various other access-to-justice initiatives that are established to protect and represent the rights...

This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion...

Because peoples contact with the criminal justice system comes in different shapes and forms, scholars are now broadening their analytical scope an...

Dieses Buch bietet für jeden Notarzteinsatz die wesentlichen Fakten zum Nachschlagen auf den Punkt gebracht. Das Kompendium basiert auf den aktuell...

This book explores how Lean a global management doctrine operates and is adopted in the real, corporeal, collective, and affective environments o...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

Our knowledge and awareness of mental health has never been greater, but little progress has been made in addressing a key cause of poor mental hea...

Drawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...