Social services & welfare, criminology books

This edited collection synthesises rural criminological issues in Africa. It focusses on rural areas and rural communities...  Read More >>

Some dark urges refuse to be silenced. I want desperately to bury my past, to become something better, but letting...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of a Rural Magistrate is a detailed, honest and most engaging 'slice of life' of a man most dedicated...  Read More >>

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This book examines forty years of federal water pollution investigations and prosecutions to explore how federal...  Read More >>

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Online platforms now constitute so significant a mode of wealth production that many argue a new kind of economic...  Read More >>

This open access edited collection provides a long-overdue examination of a practice that is continuously involved...  Read More >>

Featuring an all Aboriginal Australian editorial group, Aboriginal Social Work Voices explores important contemporary...  Read More >>

Adoption is one of the most emotive and complex subjects in social and family history. Gill Rossinis social history...  Read More >>

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A gripping true account of Pablo Acosta, a notorious Mexican drug lord, and the violent world of narco-trafficking...  Read More >>

This history of the League of Red Cross Societies (now International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent) examines...  Read More >>

Secondary trauma, moral injury, and institutional betrayal—go behind the scenes into what it’s really like to be...  Read More >>

This book examines forty years of federal water pollution investigations and prosecutions to explore how federal...  Read More >>

Featuring an all Aboriginal Australian editorial group, Aboriginal Social Work Voices explores important contemporary...  Read More >>

""entertaining. . .reads like atelevisionrealityseries."" -Alan Dershowitz, criminal defense attorney Ever...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading voices in theory, practice and research, this book examines how social workers can move...  Read More >>

What is life really like for LGBTQIA+ people behind bars? This book offers the most up-to-date global research...  Read More >>

Online platforms now constitute so significant a mode of wealth production that many argue a new kind of economic...  Read More >>

This timely book examines education in Young Offenders Institutions and adult prisons in England and Wales, addressing...  Read More >>

The Deliverance of Hope is a guide to one of the most quietly radical acts a person can undertake: writing letters...  Read More >>

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Examines the marginalisation of Muslim political thought through the writings of Khayr al-Din al-Tunsi.  Read More >>