Social services & welfare, criminology books

This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1983, The Making of Community Work is the outcome of a two-year study of community work...  Read More >>

1980s witnessed an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at transforming the role and manner of local government...  Read More >>

Dieser Sammelband untersucht verschiedene Aspekte der Kooperation von Sicherheitsbehörden und zivilgesellschaftlichen...  Read More >>

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This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and...  Read More >>

How slave rebellions influenced lawmakers as they shaped the legal traditions that led to the modern prison The...  Read More >>

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe...  Read More >>

A pioneering neuropsychologist reveals how science is proving Freud correct, and explores what this might mean for...  Read More >>

An award-winning and dazzling Danish novel, the first in the groundbreaking Scandinavian Star series, that explores...  Read More >>

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This book absorbs the experience and wisdom of the application of evidence in judicial practice, explains the principles...  Read More >>

The state of Michigan is home to Great Lakes and greater mysteries. What made Paige Renkoski abandon her running...  Read More >>

Since 1971, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured has advanced how EMS students are trained...  Read More >>

The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly...  Read More >>

Credit, Cops, and Cages draws on early Frankfurt School criminology to develop a novel theory of capitalist individualism...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Schule als Spiegelbild und Denkfabrik unserer Welt. Es fokussiert auf demokratierelevante...  Read More >>

Award-winning artist Nadir Balan brings this deeply human story to life with stunning illustrations that invite...  Read More >>

Bringing together international research and perspectives on bias, prejudice and hatred towards transgender communities,...  Read More >>

The state of Michigan is home to Great Lakes and greater mysteries. What made Paige Renkoski abandon her running...  Read More >>

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A seminal study on police violence in Germany, giving voice to victims and exposing systemic failures. Police...  Read More >>

The author learns of her mother's terminal diagnosis and returns home to be a matter-of-fact witness to her mom's...  Read More >>