Social services & welfare, criminology books

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Child Sexual Abuse: Why Children Disclose or Deny Being Abused

Child Sexual Abuse: Why Children Disclose or Deny Being...

Author: Michael E. Lamb (University of Cambridge) ,  Irit Hershkowitz (University of Haifa)
ISBN: 9781032731919
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This fully revised volume provides a rigorous assessment of the latest research relating to the disclosure of childhood...  Read More >>

Hitler’s Order Police 1936–1942: The Ordnungspolizei

Hitler’s Order Police 1936–1942: The Ordnungspolizei...

Author: Ian Baxter
ISBN: 9781036117726
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Ordnungspolizei or Order Police was one of the main apparatus for the security of Nazi Germany. During the 1930s,...  Read More >>

Prison Violence: The Search for Recognition and Respect

Prison Violence: The Search for Recognition and Respect...

Author: Kate Gooch
ISBN: 9783031913648
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book analyses the nature, causes, logic, and culture of prison victimisation in an English young offender institution...  Read More >>

Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers

Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi...

Author: Kaushalya Ariyarathne
ISBN: 9783031915390
Format: Hardback
$118.77

The author also reflects on her journey, transitioning from a researcher and academic to a full-time politician,...  Read More >>

Crime Fiction and the Holocaust

Crime Fiction and the Holocaust

Author: Eric Sandberg
ISBN: 9783031947728
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book explores a wide range of twentieth and twenty-first century international fiction that engages with the...  Read More >>

Imperfect: The Life of a Probation Officer

Imperfect: The Life of a Probation Officer

Author: Jonathan Hussey
ISBN: 9781914066702
Format: Paperback
$38.79

In Imperfect, Jonathan Hussey — author of Reoffending and the Probation Workbook series — offers a compelling...  Read More >>

Winter Stars: an elderly mother, an aging son, and life's final journey

Winter Stars: an elderly mother, an aging son, and life's...

Author: Dave Iverson
ISBN: 9781611536713
Format: Paperback
$73.92

""Winter Stars is a gift - a modern classic of frontier literature documenting the uncertain journey into the country...  Read More >>

Escape from Alcatraz

Escape from Alcatraz

Author: Carlos Cabezas López
ISBN: 9798231269235
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Three men. An impenetrable prison. One night that changed history. In the early hours of June 11, 1962, Frank Morris...  Read More >>

Sicher im Alter: Enkeltrick & Betrugsmaschen erkennen und abwehren: Ratgeber für Senioren und Angehörige - Schutz vor Telefonbetrug, falschen Polizisten, WhatsApp-Trick und anderen Fallen

Sicher im Alter: Enkeltrick & Betrugsmaschen erkennen...

Author: Christian Prasser
ISBN: 9783848264452
Format: Paperback
$78.94

Ob Telefonbetrug wie der Enkeltrick oder falsche Polizisten, ob WhatsApp-Trick, Haustürbetrug oder Online-Betrug...  Read More >>

Calabria's 'Ndrangheta: A True Crime History of the Global Mafia

Calabria's 'Ndrangheta: A True Crime History of the...

Author: Austin K Starr
ISBN: 9798286205134
Format: Paperback
$29.01

A Deadly Mafia Shadows Calabria's Blood-Stained Hills! Prepare to be gripped by the chilling true crime history...  Read More >>

Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America

Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America

Author: Tom S. Clark ,  Adam N. Glynn
ISBN: 9780691260785
Format: Hardback
$54.99

A groundbreaking study of when, where, and whom police shoot in America's largest cities Police shootings in America...  Read More >>

Violence Against Women: Criminological Perspectives on Men’s Violence

Violence Against Women: Criminological Perspectives...

Author: Nicole Westmarland (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032214597
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Violence against Women is an essential reading for social scientists who want to be up to date with cutting-edge...  Read More >>

Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence among Africans in the Diaspora: Navigating Change

Exploring the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence...

Author: Abiodun Raufu
ISBN: 9783031873881
Format: Hardback
$90.54

mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"">This book investigates the high prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among...  Read More >>

Beyond Traditional Conceptions of Policing and Crime Control: New Metrics to Evaluate Police Performance and Improve Police Legitimacy

Beyond Traditional Conceptions of Policing and Crime...

Author: Dennis P. Rosenbaum (University of Illinois, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781009612760
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element examines the crisis of legitimacy in policing in the United States and describes the adverse effects...  Read More >>

More than (Just) Words: Legal and Non-Legal Narratives in the Courtroom and Beyond

More than (Just) Words: Legal and Non-Legal Narratives...

Author: Magdalena Szczyrbak
ISBN: 9783111430904
Format: Hardback
$311.49

This volume examines the diverse articulations of legal and non-legal voices in courtroom and court-related discourse,...  Read More >>

The Digitization of Disinformation Campaigns: How Modern Disinformation Campaigns - Whose Methods and Composition Changed Through the Information Revolution Between 1990 Und 2009 - Can Be Countered More Effectively

The Digitization of Disinformation Campaigns: How Modern...

Author: Theodor Kranefeld
ISBN: 9783643913333
Format: Paperback
$71.16

The information revolution changed the way state-organized disinformation campaigns are conducted. Spreading various...  Read More >>

Law and Culture in Japan: Institutions, Justice, and Media

Law and Culture in Japan: Institutions, Justice, and...

Author: Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina, USA) ,  Hiroshi Takahashi (Kobe University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781836088691
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Volume 30 of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance brings together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds...  Read More >>

Underworld Down Under: Melbourne and Sydney Gangs in the Illicit Drug Trade

Underworld Down Under: Melbourne and Sydney Gangs in...

Author: Austin K Starr
ISBN: 9798286063000
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Beneath the vibrant streets of Melbourne and Sydney lies a chilling underworld where crime syndicates like the Carlton...  Read More >>

Forty-Four Minutes That Shook America: The Bank Robbery That Changed American Policing Forever

Forty-Four Minutes That Shook America: The Bank Robbery...

Author: Arthur Ares
ISBN: 9798286130771
Format: Paperback
$42.21

On a quiet February morning in 1997, two heavily armed men transformed a peaceful Los Angeles neighborhood into...  Read More >>

Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York

Prison Town: Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New...

Author: Andrea R. Morrell
ISBN: 9781496243119
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Andrea R. Morrell shows that despite the barriers aimed at separating incarcerated and free residents of Elmira,...  Read More >>

Crime Scene Puzzles: Put Your Investigative Skills to the Test

Crime Scene Puzzles: Put Your Investigative Skills to...

Author: Jason Caldecott
ISBN: 9781398839465
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Step into your own police investigation with this thrilling collection of crime scene puzzles - a fresh take on...  Read More >>

Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed Culture for All Children

Weaving a Web of Belonging: Developing a Trauma-Informed...

Author: Lisa Cherry
ISBN: 9781032730844
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Combining professional practice, the ‘science’ behind it, and powerful lived experiences, this book offers a true...  Read More >>

Friends with Baby Benefits

Friends with Baby Benefits

Author: Tracy Leigh ,  T K Leigh
ISBN: 9781954812543
Format: Paperback
$52.77

My best friend was never supposed to find my list of potential baby daddies. Now he's begging me to add one more...  Read More >>

The Silencer's Wife

The Silencer's Wife

Author: Katelyn Beck
ISBN: 9798987828076
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This part one of ""The Silencers"" series written in three perspectives. The first begins with ""The Silencer's...  Read More >>

Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms: A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective

Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental...

Author: Avi Brisman ,  Nigel South
ISBN: 9781439923016
Format: Paperback
$105.47

""This book looks at representations of nature in popular art and media, including fiction, to trace its construction...  Read More >>

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