Social services & welfare, criminology books

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant WritingWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award for NonfictionGrace...  Read More >>

A solution to inequalities—in health care, retirement, education, recreation, communication—is as close as the public...  Read More >>

Criminals reveal who they are and where they live not just from how they commit their crimes, but also from the...  Read More >>

In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration...  Read More >>

Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage...  Read More >>

He saved me. But he couldn't rescue my memories. Three years of my life disappeared the instant my car slammed...  Read More >>

The book offers multiple perspectives to explore and expand our understanding of intuition, revealing that the use...  Read More >>

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This collection of Carlen's key essays on a wide range of subjects is informed by a common assumption: that while...  Read More >>

Helping Clients Deal with Adversity by Changing Their Attitudes: A Concise Therapist Guide provides an outline for...  Read More >>

The result of collaboration between authors from Canada, Britain and Australia, Social Work in a Corporate Era offers...  Read More >>

This book promotes new theoretical frameworks and research questions that seek to substantially advance knowledge...  Read More >>

Offers an empirical and theoretical analysis of the implementation of EU legislation and its effect in the wake...  Read More >>

Harris presents neuroscience findings and reveals fantasy as the brain’s default mode as it alters identity during...  Read More >>

As gang violence continues to rise across the country and the world, police departments, prosecutors, and community...  Read More >>

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The papers gathered here are selected from four decades of research papers by David Greenberg. These seminal efforts...  Read More >>

Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measurement issues of performance...  Read More >>

This collection of Michael Tonry's key writings on penal policy and criminal justice brings together three clusters...  Read More >>

Criminology lost a world leader with the untimely death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the policing system in place in Britain has emerged from an historical overlap of two broad policing...  Read More >>

What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we...  Read More >>

Discusses what works in reducing impairments to children's health and development. This book covers policy and practice...  Read More >>

Brings together evidence relating to the health and development of children in the global South. Suitable for students,...  Read More >>

Interpretation in Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Cross-Cultural Perspectives covers the broad range of contemporary...  Read More >>