Social services and welfare, criminology Books

This book is about dementia in Ireland and what has and has not been happening in a country where dementia has been a taboo topic for so long.

A Practical Guide to dealing with Social Services.The book social workers do not want you to have!The number of applications to remove children from their parents’ care by social workers has hit record levels. Five percent of families find...

Author Steve Ubaney launched a three-year fact finding and investigative expedition that explains who wanted her dead, why they wanted her dead, how they did it and how they covered it up. The carefully planned disinformation campaign about Diana's death...

Quinny's father lay on the frozen, snow-covered ground bleeding to death from a gunshot wound to his neck. Hours earlier, the storm passed over the White Mountains of East Central Arizona and headed toward New Mexico. With no clouds in the sky, the cold...

Are you searching for comfort and wondering, “Where is God?” amidst terror and turmoil?The day that changed the world—September 11, 2001—propelled America into the long war, the Global War on Terror. Like many Americans who...

From the time he began his life as a "throwaway child", clearly, some crucial pieces of Ron Huber's life had been missing: Parents. Love. Self-esteem. A helping hand.Cruelly abandoned at an early age by his alcoholic parents, Ron and his brother, Vic,...

This new edition updates a highly acclaimed work with an analysis of the most recent developments in welfare "reform" and welfare rights activism. Drawing on first-hand reports of women forced to leave welfare and other newly available data, Mimi...

Chemical Dependency and Antisocial Personality Disorder gives you the information and clinical skills necessary to assess and evaluate persons suffering from substance abuse and/or antisocial personality disorders and details how you can develop...

This groundbreaking book addresses the ominous trend of introducing and passing laws and court decisions regulating the actions of women and the control of their bodies. One of the few books published on the criminalization of women's bodies, this timely...

This volume assembles hundreds of cases and studies to provide the most accurate and comprehensive picture of the status of pornography in the criminal justice system. Presenting high-level research in an accessible and organized manner, it explores a...

Give me Liberty! ...Liberty, Mississippi, county seat of Amite County - my hometown and home county - or Gloster or Centreville or Crosby or Gillsburg or other people places in our locale...the stories compiled for this work were written over a two year...

Of all children reported to child protective services for suspected maltreatment, the percentage of substantiated cases of actual physical abuse is quite small. There are a number of musculoskeletal lesions that can be mistaken for intentional physical...

Police performance appraisal is one of the most important components of law enforcement management-affecting the quality of the services a department delivers as well as the satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, it is crucial that the performance...

Understanding the Modern Russian Police represents the culmination of ten years of research and an ongoing partnership between the Volgograd Academy of Russian Internal Affairs Ministry (VA MVD) and the Volgograd branch of the Russian Presidential...

The Camorristi: And Other Tales is a book written by Margaret Galletti Di Cadilhac in 1882. It is a collection of short stories that explore the criminal underworld of Italy, particularly the Camorra, a notorious mafia-like organization based in Naples...

Lectures to Young Ladies by Almira H. Lincoln Phelps is a comprehensive guide to female education in the 19th century. Originally published in 1833, this book provides an overview of the different subjects that were considered important for young women...

""Our Convict V1"" is a historical fiction novel written by Mary Carpenter and published in 1864. The book is set in England during the 19th century and tells the story of a young woman named Mary who is falsely accused of a crime and sentenced to...

More than half of children either in foster care, or adopted from care in the developed world, have a measurable need for mental health services, while up to one quarter present with complex and severe trauma- and attachment-related psychological...

Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global...

Past studies have suggested that offenders desist from crime due to a range of factors, such as familial pressures, faith based interventions or financial incentives. To date, little has been written about the relationship between desistance and...

Research and theorizing on criminal decision making has not kept pace with recent developments in other fields of human decision making. Whereas criminal decision making theory is still largely dominated by cognitive approaches such as rational...

Prostitution often causes significant anxiety for communities. These communities have been known to campaign against its presence in 'their' neighbourhoods, seeking the removal of street sex workers and their male clients. Although research and...

The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and...

From Labour's promise to be 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime' through to the White Paper and new criminal justice legislation, controlling crime and reforming the criminal justice system has been one of the government's key priorities.This...

This book examines international developments in investigative interviewing. It analyses the cases and other factors leading to the paradigm shift in a number of countries, it considers issues that are of current interest to practitioners and academics...

This book aims to explore sex offenders' perspectives of the way they are treated and managed. Whilst a great deal has been written about sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system, few studies have approached the issues through...

In an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV...

Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide.This...

After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not...

The broad aim of this book is to provide a general basis for comparatively analysing and understanding the French riots of October/November 2005 and the corresponding Bristish disorders which occurred in the spring/summer of 2001. The first of the French...

This book tells the story of the process leading up to the demolition of a small council estate in the north of England and its subsequent regeneration. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it addresses the local governance of security and the ways...

What causes young people to offend? What influence do schools have on young peoples' offending behaviour in relation to other possible causal factors? These critical criminological and educational questions are addressed in Schools and the Problem of...

This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved...

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts. It examines the extent to which ethnic minority defendants and witnesses in both the Crown Court and the magistrates'...

This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of...

This second edition of the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of crime prevention and the creation of safer communities. This book is...

""Recollections Of My Visit To Spain And Its Prisons: In The Year 1863"" is a book written by Abraham Capadose and published in 1865. The book is a personal account of Capadose's visit to Spain in 1863, where he witnessed the country's political turmoil...

""Notices of the Emperor Charles the Fifth: In 1555 and 1556"" is a historical book written by William Stirling Maxwell and published in 1856. The book provides a detailed account of the life and reign of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, during the...

""Notes On Criminal Procedure And Police Duty"" is a book written by Macleod Bawtree Robinson in 1905. The book provides a comprehensive guide to criminal procedure and the duties of the police. It covers topics such as the arrest of suspects, search and...

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