Social services & welfare, criminology books

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This book provides a contemporary framework to address the needs of young people and their families, alongside practical...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this influential volume develops previous research by the author and explores issues and...  Read More >>

First published in 1999, in the light of recent moves towards deprofessionalisation and instrumentalism, Karen Lyons...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this is the first definitive text on single-case evaluation in Britain.  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this timely study of an American acute care hospital examines decision making by patients...  Read More >>

This book offers updated views from incorporating meaning making theory and social constructionist theory to examine...  Read More >>

This unique study of social work provides a bold and challenging view of the subject from an anthropological perspective....  Read More >>

Offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours of the rich as well as the poor...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, Social Assessment Theory and Practice provides an innovative and comprehensive theoretical...  Read More >>

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One cop. One mission. No backup. No room for failure. In a neighborhood known as ""The Fishbowl"" - with only one...  Read More >>

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The Psychoanalytic Zero is written from the unique perspective of a Western-trained Asian psychoanalyst and applies...  Read More >>

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This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the...  Read More >>

The stories Thomas Kapsidelis tells in this book show how people and communities affected by profound loss ultimately...  Read More >>

This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the...  Read More >>

Relevante Zusammenhänge umfassen einerseits Auswirkungen auf Umwelt und Klima, Sicherheitsrisiken und die von Energieanlagen...  Read More >>

Evidence-based policymaking has, in recent decades, become a focus of program innovation in social care that engages...  Read More >>

Have your dreams been shattered? Do you feel hopeless in thinking the desires of your heart will never be realized?...  Read More >>

Deep reinforcement learning (deep RL) combines deep learning and reinforcement learning, in which artificial agents...  Read More >>

This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on...  Read More >>