Social services & welfare, criminology books

This book provides a much-needed comparative perspective on police detention. It makes a significant contribution...  Read More >>

This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency and sexuality to argue for an anti-carceral...  Read More >>

This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyses the conditions under which squatting has intensified...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability challenges people in disability studies as well as other disciplinary...  Read More >>

The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions is a stimulating collection...  Read More >>

This book examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested...  Read More >>

Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is...  Read More >>

This volume re-examines the mass violence which swept across Indonesia in 1965 in light of attempts to seek justice...  Read More >>

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive historical-geographical lens to the development and evolution...  Read More >>

This book underscores the centrality of refugees to the workings of current dynamics of social and cultural membership...  Read More >>

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse...  Read More >>

Rebuilding Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design explores and extends the common ground between CPTED and...  Read More >>

45 contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the...  Read More >>

This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has...  Read More >>

This book develops an interdisciplinary approach for answering a classic and essential question in any rule-governed...  Read More >>

This book provides a complete guide on fraud hotlines. It is designed to educate readers with respect to the history,...  Read More >>

A comparative analysis of juvenile justice systems, this book features the contributions of international experts....  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide...  Read More >>

A student-friendly textbook that defines and explains the concepts of crime, criminal law, and criminology, this...  Read More >>

An in-depth review of the world of fire over the last half-decade and how the tragedy of Grenfell Tower has its...  Read More >>

This book explores the potential of domestic abuse data to assess the level of harm caused to victims and the amount...  Read More >>

Texas Guinan was the queen of New York's speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters...  Read More >>

London, England, 1967. An explosion of recreational drugs has resulted in the emergence of an anti-establiment hippy...  Read More >>

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This book focuses on the three major types of child harming within the family—abuse, incest, and filicide—examining...  Read More >>