Social services & welfare, criminology books

Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons...  Read More >>

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This textbook makes a concerted effort to expose crimes committed by those wielding unfettered personal power and...  Read More >>

Der Sammelband vereint Beiträge, die sich mit Vulnerabilität und Exklusion an den Rändern der Gesellschaft beschäftigen....  Read More >>

Children as young as nine can unwittingly become involved or associated with gangs and gang activity. Quite often,...  Read More >>

The American prison system has gone off the rails. Originally started in the country by King George III, the pre-American...  Read More >>

The architectural model for the Haskell Home was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893,...  Read More >>

In December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find...  Read More >>

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives...  Read More >>

A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives...  Read More >>

This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice....  Read More >>

The goal of this resource manual is to help students understand crime, the origins of criminological theory, the...  Read More >>

This book juxtaposes the history of anti-marijuana legislation in America with its growing use and social acceptance....  Read More >>

Originally published in 2005. This key work addresses social exclusion, employing data from a nationally representative...  Read More >>

Originally published in 2005. The primary focus of this work is the relationship between family, work and the welfare...  Read More >>

This accessible guide addresses the nature of the intrusive and unwanted thoughts that can be common in new parenthood,...  Read More >>

Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons...  Read More >>

This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity...  Read More >>

The first known abolitionist critique of the death penalty-here for the first time in EnglishIn 1764, a Milanese...  Read More >>

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Fighting to survive on a patrol launch during a typhoon. Investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee...  Read More >>

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L'auteure emprunte la perspective de l'histoire des religions et la méthode de l'analyse du discours pour observer...  Read More >>

""Even in law-abiding southwestern Michigan, the Eighteenth Amendment turned ordinary citizens into scofflaws and...  Read More >>

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