Social services & welfare, criminology books

A dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, two larger-than-life figures from the American West who are inextricably...  Read More >>

A dual biography of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, two larger-than-life figures from the American West who are inextricably...  Read More >>

Billy the Kid--a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney--was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic...  Read More >>

Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual...  Read More >>

Assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual...  Read More >>

Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography captures the experience of being elderly and facing the end...  Read More >>

This unique book explores the question of whether different myths and narratives have an impact on the development...  Read More >>

First published in 1999, the overall aim of the book is to provide a comprehensive critical guide to the theory...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this volume aimed to study social care services as a specific type of social policy that...  Read More >>

First published in 1999, this book attempts to understand housing co-operatives in terms of their development over...  Read More >>

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First published in 1999, this volume examines the inclusion of disabled children as a category of children in need...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this study reports on a study of 221 sex workers in Queensland, Australia and provides...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this volume recognises that, despite the plethora of benign welfare approaches to troubled...  Read More >>

First published in 1999, this volume examines issues including disturbances in children and adolescents, severe...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of...  Read More >>

First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official...  Read More >>

This short novel shares all the personal highs and lows of one B.C. teacher and her husband upon entering into retirement....  Read More >>

Travel. Inspiration. Motherhood... and Depression. 264 million people worldwide suffer from depression. For...  Read More >>

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This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book...  Read More >>

Music, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity and Music as Resistance. Spanning a range of cultures and time periods,...  Read More >>