Social services & welfare, criminology books

This book describes the basics and various applications of DNA fingerprinting, including in actual case studies....  Read More >>

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Diseases of Society (the Vice and Crime Problem) Several years later I served for some time as...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners, 1872 The additions to the Penitentiary property just referred to are all...  Read More >>

Excerpt from An Essay on the Principle of Population, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries: Made to the General Assembly at...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Report on Sing Sing Prison Q. Are you familiar with the conditions of dirt, of disease and of vileness...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Seventh Report of the Prison Association of New-York: Including a List of the Officers and Members...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Forum, Vol. 2: Or Forty Years Full Practice at the Philadelphia Bar District court for city and...  Read More >>

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As the shot split the night, I snatched the rifle from the poacher's hands. The two veteran game wardens stared...  Read More >>

A crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was...  Read More >>

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington...  Read More >>

This book puts in one place and in accessible form Richard Berk’s most recent work on forecasts of re-offending...  Read More >>

Truly international in scope, this Handbook focuses on approaches to discipline, surveillance and social control...  Read More >>

This innovative collection extends the emerging field of stress biology to examine the effects of a substantial...  Read More >>

This insightful volume details the implementation and challenges of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), developed...  Read More >>

""This text is a valuable new resource that we recommend for all of our professionals and are proud to incorporate...  Read More >>

This book synthesizes the most current evidence-based research and practices on prevention, assessment, intervention,...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Assisted Suicide in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy: Published Annually Under the Direction of the Philadelphia...  Read More >>

Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Cause of the Increase of Pauperism and Poor Rates: With a Remedy for the Same,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Work Among the Fallen: A Paper Read Before the Ruri-Decanal Chapter of St. Margaret's and St. John's,...  Read More >>