Social services & welfare, criminology books

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people’s struggles...  Read More >>

Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three...  Read More >>

This expansive reference examines the many types of Family Life Education (FLE) programs being offered around the...  Read More >>

​This book offers an analysis of social security in Ireland from 1981 to 2016 - a period of immense economic and...  Read More >>

This open access book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Prisons Over Sfas: Deportation and Colonization British and American Prisons of to-Day IT will hardly...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Dangerous Glasses of Ni York and Twenty Years Work Among Them Themselves, but have striven, through...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Slippery Slope: And Other Papers on Social Subjects The History Of the English Poor Law may be...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Chas, M. Cooke: Delivered in the Dr. Grissom Trial for the Defence, Thursday, July 18,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Punishment of Death, Vol. 1: A Selection of Articles From the Morning Herald, With Notes In conformity...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. 4: August 20, 1831 This head occupies a very large portion, indeed,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, Vol. 6: January, 1867 The Secretaries shall keep...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Crime: Its Causes and Remedies Q'iminal Science, and that Dr. Lombroso expressed a deep interest but...  Read More >>

Filled with tips, ideas, calls to action, and brief exercises, these cards will be a daily go-to as you learn skills...  Read More >>

Intentionally create a Prayer Life that attracts what you desire, and learn how to stop doubting that your blessings...  Read More >>

A comical look at a prosecutors failed efforts to cover up the truth from the entire world.  Read More >>

Have you ever imagined the life of a vigilante to be exciting? Do you see them as righters of wrongs and seekers...  Read More >>

From Birth to Sixteen outlines children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through...  Read More >>

This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice...  Read More >>

Examines health-care choices offered to aging Americans and argues that too often the choices serve to profit the...  Read More >>

With reform of parole now on the political agenda, will a more formal process of release operate toconstrain the...  Read More >>

This book examines expectations for justice in transitional societies and how stakeholder expectations are ignored,...  Read More >>

This book explores the textures of women’s narratives of patriarchal oppression of female sexuality. Postcolonial...  Read More >>

This timely volume provides the practitioner with evidence based treatments for many of the clinical problems encountered...  Read More >>

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining...  Read More >>