Social services and welfare, criminology Books

This book has emerged in response to social service workers' vivid descriptions of changes in the practice of their craft during the past 15 years and to the scanty literature that addressed their concerns. Few works have attempted to explore the...

Primarily intended for the professional child and youth care worker, this new book challenges the most basic methods and beliefs of contemporary practice. Written in the form of a novel, the central issues of child care are brought to life through the...

Meditations for Adoptive Parents serves as a trusted confidant for those who have welcomed children into their homes through adoption. This heartfelt collection of meditations celebrates adoption as an act of grace mirroring God's own redeeming love for...

This memoir recounts a remarkable journey of the adopted self and a transformative biological reunion bound to touch your heart. Years after being taken away from her birth parents as a baby by the state and then being adopted out of the foster care...

Richard Lawless’s Capitol Hill’s Criminal Underground: The Most Thorough Exploration of Government Corruption Ever Put in Writing is a no-holds-barred tell-all about the bad guys of Capital Hill and Wall Street, including the Department of...

How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is...

There is currently a lively debate ongoing in society about the nature of trust and the conditions necessary to establish and sustain it. Given the role of trust in bridging uncertainty, it is perhaps not surprising that as our consciousness of risk has...

This evidence-based text illuminates the lived experience of people affected by mental health difficulties. Providing comprehensive reviews of the qualitative research on each disorder discussed, it offers insights into the perceived causes and triggers...

This book takes a quantitative, empirical, approach to the police power of stop and search, examining its history, effectiveness, the public response, the problem of ethnic disproportionality and the possibility of its reform.

This book offers a guide to interpreting available statistical data on terrorism attacks around the world.The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) now includes more than 113,000 terrorist attacks, starting in 1970. By analyzing these data, researchers...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the...

This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process.Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al...

In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the...

Violence is a research topic that is fraught with difficulties. A notoriously sensitive subject, and one that is presumed to be largely hidden, researchers have long struggled with the question of how to measure its impact and how to explore its...

Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development. This new book examines the poverty problem in relation to housing and social...

Sir Leon Radzinowicz is one of the key figures in the development of criminology in the twentieth century. This account of the development of criminology intertwines his personal narrative as a criminologist with the progression of criminology itself...

Social work has recently received some dreadful news coverage, but the most extravagant headlines and accusations centre on local authority social work with children. Moreover, such accusations stem almost exclusively from the national press. In Making...

In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had...

"A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know: Mumia Abu-Jamal must be heard." --Alice Walker"Resonates with the moral force of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail." -Boston GlobeAfter twenty years on death row,...

Providing a broad, multidisciplinary approach, this volume draws on the editor's 30 years of explosives casework experience, including his work on task forces set up to investigate major explosives incidents. Assembling the contributions of...

Motherhood, Respectability & Baby-Farming in Victorian & Edwardian London explores the largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian...

This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies.

The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction focusing on residential care, policing, the...

This book looks at rape myths and culture within the university environment, examining the development of social identities in the creation and support of such culture; it demonstrates how an understanding of rape culture is often at odds with an...

Every three seconds, a girl under the age of 18 is married somewhere across the world usually without her consent and sometimes to a much older man. Combining rigorous research and compelling personal testimonies, Elaine Storkey investigates the...

How can a society prevent-not deter, not punish-but prevent crime? Criminal justice prevention, commonly called crime control, aims to prevent crime after an initial offence has been commited through anything from an arrest to a death penalty sentence...

Today, two-thirds of the world's nations have abolished the death penalty, either officially or in practice, due mainly to the campaign to end state executions led by Western European nations. Will this success spread to Asia, where over 95 percent...

"Provides many examples of ways to present difficult information in a sensitive manner--sensitive to the child's needs, to the birthparents' struggles, and to the adoptive parents' perspectives."--Vera I. Fahlberg, M.D.

More than 63 million individuals - representing almost 6% of India's population - slide into poverty annually, due to the debilitating burden of critical illnesses afflicting them or their family members - even as we endlessly debate and discuss ways and...

Step inside the mysterious and eerie world of the Rock Island Roadhouse, where echoes of the past linger within its walls. Whispers in the Walls delves into the dark history and paranormal activity of this infamous building. Once a bustling stopover...

In his first book, Shane shares revealing, sometimes shocking, but always insightful true stories from his nearly 10 years in prisons from Alaska to Colorado. Told straight from the heart by arguably one of the most resilient and inspirational inmates...

The path of service is a road less traveled, but for those who walk it, the rewards are immeasurable. The Rookie Handbook serves as your comprehensive guide to navigating a challenging yet fulfilling career in law enforcement. Whether you're just...

The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once...

India, with its vast population and diverse geography, faces a significant challenge in combating the illegal narcotics trade. The country's strategic location, sharing borders with major opium-producing regions, makes it vulnerable to drug trafficking...

Attackers have to be only right once, but just one mistake will permanently undo them.Book DescriptionThe "Ultimate Cyberwarfare for Evasive Cyber Tactic" is an all-encompassing guide, meticulously unfolding across pivotal cybersecurity domains,...

Esta obra consolida os conceitos mais relevantes de saúde mental e como a psicanálise se desenvolveu, desde as pesquisas de Sigmund Schlomo Freud até

Este livro apresenta em sua composição um conjunto de artigos que refletem a educação brasileira em seus distintos caminhos. Logo, cada capítulo foi p

Em um mundo no qual naturalizou-se o absurdo e questiona-se a sanidade de quem não concorda com o que é posto, este livro é mais do que necessário. É

Die Entwicklung der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe am Beispiel einer westfälischen Großstadt im industriellen HerzenDeutschlandsTeil 1 Vom Mittelalter bis 1945

"Zweieinhalb Jubiläen" - was soll das heißen, kann man ein halbes Jubiläum feiern und dazu noch gleich zwei andere? Im Jahr 2018 blickt die Hochschule Ludwigshafen am Rhein und ihr Fachbereich Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen zurück auf drei Daten:Im Jahr...

Der Autor berichtet aus der Ermittlungsarbeit der Berliner Polizeibehörde. Er baute Brücken von der Kriminalität zur Rechtsethnologie. Er verfolgte Aspekte zu aktuellen Themen Verbrechen, Recht, Schuld, Strafe, Ursachen. Zusammen mit Kollegen baute er...

Terroristisches Verhalten ist statistisch gesehen unwahrscheinliches Verhalten. Da­ mit tritt es aber zugleich aus dem Verständnishorizont heraus, aus dem die meisten Beobachter ihr eigenes Verhalten und das anderer Menschen...

1) VgI. Merton, zitiert nach Albrecht 1977, S. 148 2) Klanfer 1969, S. 35 3) J. I. Kitsuse/M. Spector, Toward a Sociology of Social Pro­ blems: Social Conditions, Value-Judgements, and Social Problems, in: Social Problems 20,...