Social services & welfare, criminology books

In the small hours of December 18, 1931, a landlady in an Albany rooming house heard a man's voice drift through...  Read More >>

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In 1953, a young Greek couple in Chicago adopt a six-week-old baby girl from The Cradle Society, a long-standing,...  Read More >>

In a world increasingly characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) and, more recently,...  Read More >>

Each season reflects the beauty, strength, and spiritual wisdom that only time can cultivate. If you're navigating...  Read More >>

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A story the world thought it knew told with the truth it needed to hear. When Elizabeth Smart was abducted from...  Read More >>

but also new institutional forms that produce possibilities and countervailing technologies of power, capable of...  Read More >>

Part two explores different contexts of education: How education directed at child migrants becomes organized, the...  Read More >>

Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense...  Read More >>

This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex....  Read More >>

Shirley Graham's ""There was once a slave ... The heroic story of Frederick Douglass"" presents a profound and meticulously...  Read More >>

Delve into Henry Olerich's groundbreaking treatise, ""A cityless and countryless world: An outline of practical...  Read More >>

""The American Red Cross Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 1913,"" offers an invaluable glimpse into the vital humanitarian...  Read More >>

Ein junges Mädchen verschwindet spurlos. Die Suche läuft heiß, doch jede Spur verläuft sich im Dickicht der Dunkelheit....  Read More >>

First published in 1976, this volume is organized about two themes: the experimental analysis of aggression, and...  Read More >>

First published in 1949, this book was primarily written for all who had to do with delinquent children. What is...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2001, this book sets out to enlarge understanding of the complexities of suicidal feelings...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1954, this was a new study of aggressive behaviour and phantasies in children of school...  Read More >>

In this title, originally published in 1950, Alex Comfort discusses the relationship between crime and power, and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, this groundbreaking book was designed to provide graduate students with an introduction...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1995, this book describes and analyzes the way urban parents view the problems of their...  Read More >>

Debate on the treatment of juvenile delinquents, was usually presented as being between the exponents of ‘law and...  Read More >>

First published in 1967, this work is an account of a process: of the way in which the treatment of the child delinquent...  Read More >>