Social services & welfare, criminology books

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In 1953, a young Greek couple in Chicago adopt a six-week-old baby girl from The Cradle Society, a long-standing,...  Read More >>

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This fully updated new edition introduces the core knowledge and skills that healthcare professionals need to use...  Read More >>

Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1979, this book examines the implications of the change of emphasis in how alcoholism was...  Read More >>

In the 1980s the relationship between alcohol and aggression and violence was a controversial one. Much of previous...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991, Counselling Problem Drinkers provides an illuminating and invaluable guide for the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1978, this book develops a radical new perspective on the prevalence and causes of drinking...  Read More >>

In the 1970s the vagrant alcoholic was not a new problem. Tim Cook worked for many years with homeless men and in...  Read More >>

This valuable resource provides an up-to-date and accessible evidence-based guide to help ensure student veteran...  Read More >>

This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex....  Read More >>

A lucid guide to the radical politics of prison abolitionists There is growing recognition that mass incarceration...  Read More >>

This fully updated new edition introduces the core knowledge and skills that healthcare professionals need to use...  Read More >>

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account...  Read More >>

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized...  Read More >>

Faithful Prepping: Security in Spirit Most people think of ""preppers"" as bunker-builders, stockpilers, or fear-driven...  Read More >>

This open access brief examines NATO’s Stability Policing doctrine...  Read More >>

Homer Hudelson is a San Francisco legend--spending over 4 decades in the SFPD and experiencing so much in his fascinating...  Read More >>

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This valuable resource provides an up-to-date and accessible evidence-based guide to help ensure student veteran...  Read More >>

This book exposes a truth that governments and institutions hope you never learn. The people hold the highest authority....  Read More >>

Across America, millions go hungry not because we lack food-but because we waste it. Every day, grocery stores...  Read More >>

This open access book examines the impact of digitalisation processes on fair, accessible and inclusive criminal...  Read More >>