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    Gender and Groupwork

    Thinking about gender can enrich the work of all groupwork practitioners and can make a real difference in people's lives. Based on practice experience in both the UK and the USA, Gender and Groupwork brings together the best of groupwork knowledge,...
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    Community-Based Service Delivery

    This book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives in community-based service delivery to address the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging...
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    The Milltown Boys at Sixty

    The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an insider and an outsider view of the 'Milltown Boys', exploring the nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about their experiences of the criminal justice system. A...
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    Juvenile Lifers

    This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder. Drawing on interviews with every juvenile under...
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    Social Change and Social Work

    Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local...
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  • Improving Intelligence Analysis in Policing
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    Improving Intelligence Analysis in Policing

    This book explains how improvements in intelligence analysis can bene!t policing. Written by experts with experience in police higher education and professional practice, this accessible text provides students with both practical knowledge and a critical...
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  • China's Pension System China's Pension System
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    China's Pension System

    This book tells the story of how China has managed to build a national pension system that now covers most of its population and what this system holds for its future.
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  • Origins of Terrorism Origins of Terrorism
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    Origins of Terrorism

    Origins of Terrorism: The Rise of the World's Most Formidable Terrorist Groups examines the roots of Islamic terrorism, it's history, and some of the foundational figures in prominent terrorist organizations. Throughout, the book also addresses the use...
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  • The Limits of State Power & Private Rights The Limits of State Power & Private Rights
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    The Limits of State Power & Private Rights

    This book tackles a complex area of law, social policy and social work, providing a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical, practical and legal boundaries of State power following safeguarding and child protection referrals in England. The book...
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  • ANALYSING COMMUNITY WORK ANALYSING COMMUNITY WORK
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    ANALYSING COMMUNITY WORK

    This is a key text in community work, discussing international thinkers and arguing for more critical analysis of community work.
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  • Conservative Criminology Conservative Criminology
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    Conservative Criminology

    Conservative Criminology serves as an important counterpoint to virtually every other academic text on crime. Hundreds of books have been written about crime and criminal justice policy from a variety of perspectives, including Marxist, liberal,...
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  • Roots of Modern Psychology and Law Roots of Modern Psychology and Law
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    Roots of Modern Psychology and Law

    Psychology's formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until several decades later. The emergence of psychology and law as a modern field...
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  • Mixed Economies Welfare Mixed Economies Welfare
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    Mixed Economies Welfare

    This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins with an introduction to set the scene, followed by an examination of the...
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  • The Future of Biological Disarmament The Future of Biological Disarmament
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    The Future of Biological Disarmament

    This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts.Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs...
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  • Contemporary European Security Contemporary European Security
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    Contemporary European Security

    Contemporary European Security explores the complex European security architecture and introduces students to the empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying the subject. Written by experts in each subfield, it addresses key topics...
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  • Evidence-based Social Work Evidence-based Social Work
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    Evidence-based Social Work

    Evidence-based practice is now a core element of many governments' approaches to policy-making and social intervention. It has become a powerful movement that promises to change the content and structure of social work and its allied professions. Its...
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  • Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers
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    Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers

    How does a social work student make the connection between sociological knowledge and day-to-day social work? Sociology for Social Workers and Probation Officers provides an introduction to sociological ideas and research and places them firmly into...
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  • Firearms, the Law, and Forensic Ballistics Firearms, the Law, and Forensic Ballistics
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    Firearms, the Law, and Forensic Ballistics

    Now in its third edition, this volume has been updated to reflect new research and technology. It examines firearms laws around the world; the mechanisms of various firearms and the linking of a particular bullet or cartridge with a suspected weapon; the...
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  • Dissenting Social Work Dissenting Social Work
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    Dissenting Social Work

    This book, from one of international social work's leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves, Garrett's book...
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  • Professionalism in Probation Professionalism in Probation
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    Professionalism in Probation

    This book explores probation staff understandings of professionalism in the aftermath of the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to services in England and Wales. Drawing on the sociology of the professions, this book offers an original and timely...
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  • Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space
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    Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space

    Bringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban space, on the one hand, and incivilities and urban harm, on the other. Progressive urbanisation not only influences...
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  • Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
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    Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine

    Self-tracking practices are part of many health and medical domains. The introduction of digital technologies such as smartphones, tablet computers, apps, social media platforms, dedicated patient support sites and wireless devices for medical monitoring...
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  • Person-centred Health Care Person-centred Health Care
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    Person-centred Health Care

    Person-centred health care is increasingly endorsed as a key element of high-quality care, yet, in practice, it often means patient-centred health care. This book scrutinizes the principle of primacy of patient welfare, which, although deeply embedded in...
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  • Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries
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    Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries

    To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health. However, the compulsion to do and understand global health emerges largely from contexts that geography has long engaged with:...
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  • The Intimate Lives of Disabled People The Intimate Lives of Disabled People
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    The Intimate Lives of Disabled People

    Disabled people are routinely assumed to lack the capabilities and capacities to embody and experience sexuality and desire, as well as the agency to love and be loved by others, and build their own families, if they so choose. Centring on the sexual,...
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  • Training Law Enforcement Officers Training Law Enforcement Officers
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    Training Law Enforcement Officers

    This how-to guide covers every aspect of law enforcement training, from training academy administration, to designing curricula, to identifying and utilizing qualified instructors. Using the latest methodologies, technologies, and best practices,...
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  • International Sports Volunteering International Sports Volunteering
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    International Sports Volunteering

    Sport volunteering is becoming an increasingly popular motive for international travel. Many tourism organisations now advertise sport volunteering projects, with colleges and universities also offering students the opportunity to participate in similar...
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  • Women's Transitions from Prison Women's Transitions from Prison
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    Women's Transitions from Prison

    Women continue to be one of the fastest growing groups of offenders with an increasing group of women involved in the criminal justice system around the world. Whilst internationally women comprise a low percentage of the total prison population, there...
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  • Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner
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    Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner

    Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking...
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  • Cybercrime and its victims Cybercrime and its victims
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    Cybercrime and its victims

    The last twenty years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, to the point that people spend a major portion of waking life in online spaces. While there are enormous benefits associated with this technology, there are also...
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  • Child Trafficking in the EU Child Trafficking in the EU
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    Child Trafficking in the EU

    Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the 'who' and 'how' we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt,...
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  • Cybercrime Through an Interdisciplinary Lens Cybercrime Through an Interdisciplinary Lens
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    Cybercrime Through an Interdisciplinary Lens

    Research on cybercrime has been largely bifurcated, with social science and computer science researchers working with different research agendas. These fields have produced parallel scholarship to understand cybercrime offending and victimization, as...
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  • Young Offenders and Open Custody Young Offenders and Open Custody
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    Young Offenders and Open Custody

    Young offenders given custodial sentences in youth institutions constitute an important group in the context of crime prevention research, given that offenders within this group are at high risk of reoffending or continuing with a criminal career into...
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  • Transforming Summary Justice Transforming Summary Justice
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    Transforming Summary Justice

    Sweeping changes are being introduced into the lower-tier magistrates' courts in England and Wales in efforts to modernise the system and speed up case processing. They concentrate on delivering prompt justice within a modern, efficient and...
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  • Advances in Evidence-Based Policing Advances in Evidence-Based Policing
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    Advances in Evidence-Based Policing

    The evidence-based policing (EBP) movement has intensified in many countries around the world in recent years, resulting in a proliferation of policies and infrastructure to support such a transformation. This movement has come to be associated with...
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  • Police-Citizen Relations Across the World Police-Citizen Relations Across the World
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    Police-Citizen Relations Across the World

    Police-citizen relations are in the public spotlight following outbursts of anger and violence. Such clashes often happen as a response to fatal police shootings, racial or ethnic discrimination, or the mishandling of mass protests. But even in such...
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  • Big Data, Crime and Social Control Big Data, Crime and Social Control
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    Big Data, Crime and Social Control

    From predictive policing to self-surveillance to private security, the potential uses to of big data in crime control pose serious legal and ethical challenges relating to privacy, discrimination, and the presumption of innocence. The book is about the...
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  • Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe
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    Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe

    The intercultural contexts and new configurations in Europe offer fertile ground for social conflict, tensions and threat. This book challenges predominant and fear inducing approaches of justice and security as they appear in intercultural contexts, and...
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  • Moral Issues in Intelligence-led Policing Moral Issues in Intelligence-led Policing
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    Moral Issues in Intelligence-led Policing

    The core baseline of Intelligence-led Policing is the aim of increasing efficiency and quality of police work, with a focus on crime analysis and intelligence methods as tools for informed and objective decisions both when conducting targeted,...
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  • The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody
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    The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody

    Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the...
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  • Gender Responsive Justice Gender Responsive Justice
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    Gender Responsive Justice

    At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number of nations, states and organisations both national...
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  • Money and the Governance of Punishment Money and the Governance of Punishment
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    Money and the Governance of Punishment

    Money is the most frequently means used in the legal system to punish and regulate. Monetary penalties outnumber all other sanctions delivered by criminal justice in many jurisdictions, imprisonment included. More people pay fines than go to prison and...
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  • Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence
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    Restorative Responses to Sexual Violence

    Sexual violence, in all its forms, is a crime for which anecdotal accounts and scholarly reports suggest victims in their great majority do not receive adequate 'justice' or redress. The theory and practice of restorative justice is rapidly developing...
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  • Domestic Violence in International Context Domestic Violence in International Context
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    Domestic Violence in International Context

    Domestic violence does not discriminate and is prevalent throughout the word regardless of race, age or socio-economic status. Why, then, do reactions and response differ so widely throughout the world? While some countries work diligently to address the...
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