Social services & welfare, criminology books

An intellectually daring and deeply intimate exploration of how genetics complicate our ideas about blame, punishment...  Read More >>

This comprehensive handbook offers a multidisciplinary exploration of research and practice at the intersection...  Read More >>

This book takes the complicated subject of contracting and explores it in depth, providing coaches and readers with...  Read More >>

The Single-Session Therapy Mindset delivers a comprehensive view of the single-session therapy mindset and how it...  Read More >>

This book provides an alternative viewpoint on mental health, an issue that touches so many of the families and...  Read More >>

The Contradictions of Motherhood hopes to encourage individuals and households to think differently about motherhood,...  Read More >>

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the convergence between drug trafficking and environmental...  Read More >>

A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in Detroit Detroit seemed to experience an explosive...  Read More >>

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In 1991, eighteen-year-old Tony Egbuna Ford was sentenced to death for a murder he said he did not commit. More...  Read More >>

Policing the beats exposes the long history of policing Black music from the era of colonial slavery to the present...  Read More >>

With comparative insights from England, Wales, and the U.S., this book reframes victims in common law systems as...  Read More >>

You've had the Cocaine Cowboys, the Hippie Mafia and Barry Seal. Now you have Skip the fulcrum between the US War...  Read More >>

One freezing night in January 1968, a routine burglary call came in from Cloud Buick. What officers found instead...  Read More >>

The fire service has changed-and so has the weight of leadership. Today's fire officers are asked to lead through...  Read More >>

Born in Dumbarton as the First World War drew to a close, Margaret Burnett grew up in a Scottish family shaped by...  Read More >>

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

This groundbreaking book brings together decades of frontline...  Read More >>

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A deeply informed, nail-biting expose of the multibillion-dollar hacking and ransomware industry  Read More >>

Applied social research plays a key role in social work and welfare, though its importance isn't always immediately...  Read More >>

Research into and analysis of social skill training had become a subject of major interest by early 1980s. First...  Read More >>

Interviewing and communication are central to the work of the social worker, the psychotherapist, and to that of...  Read More >>