Social services and welfare, criminology Books

This book presents a new theatre play, For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine, along with a thorough introduction that provides historical context and theoretical framing. The play with the enigmatic title tells the poignant and forgotten stories...

Fifteen missing people, fifteen families grieving, and one person looking for answers: a forensic and moving re-examination of some of Australia's most heartbreaking missing persons cases What would you do if someone you loved disappeared without a...

VOLUME 34, Number 1 (2025) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration" edited by Jennifer M. Kilty (University of Ottawa), Rachel Fayter (Carleton University) and Justin Piche...

For over forty years, William Head on Stage (WHoS) has operated as an inmate-run prison theatre, making it one of Canada's longest-standing prison arts initiatives.Staging Prison Theatre in Canada: Setting the Spotlight on William Head on Stage delves...

For most people, their twenties and thirties are the busiest times of their life, a period of new careers, new friends, new cities, new families. What few count on is that they might also be called to additional responsibilities as caregivers of parents,...

For most people, the main point of access to the health system is through primary health care (PHC). The fundamental premise of primary health care is that all people, everywhere, have the right to receive the appropriate care in their community. Primary...