Social services & welfare, criminology books

This book examines the complexities of OVCs in Zimbabwe, situated within the broader context of the Global South...  Read More >>

This book presents the complex intersections of race, gender, and colonialism and their profound impact on the incarceration...  Read More >>

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Drawing on interviews with over 50 women in rural villages in Ghana, this book analyzes the poverty of older, rural,...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der sozialen Welt der Transformation. Dieser Hinweis begründet die herausragende...  Read More >>

At a time when educators are increasingly asked to take responsibility for the ‘mental health’ of students, this...  Read More >>

This book provides a vital, critical criminological contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the so-called...  Read More >>

This book examines professional youth mentoring, which is marked by enduring relationships throughout childhood...  Read More >>

mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"">The joint work of criminologists from Brazil constitutes a new facet of Brazilian...  Read More >>

This book addresses the various challenges that arose during the two periods of Indonesian President Jokowi's administration....  Read More >>

This book explores violence in Latin America societies and its social representations in cinema. Just as mass media...  Read More >>

This edited book provides a comprehensive study of punitive practices in modern-day Lithuania, highlighting its...  Read More >>

This volume critically interrogates the dominant understanding of ‘addiction’ and ‘addicts’. It examines the proliferation...  Read More >>

Rapid advancements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (like ChatGPT and LLMs) are fundamentally reshaping the...  Read More >>

This book presents new ideas on poverty reduction and the reality of poverty in China, drawing from domestic and...  Read More >>

This book offers a groundbreaking examination of how Vietnam’s legal system is evolving to protect and empower children....  Read More >>

This comprehensive volume offers a one-stop reference for everything related to dermatologic therapeutics—covering...  Read More >>

This book uses a mixed-methods approach to understand the role of technology in facilitating exploitation in the...  Read More >>

This comprehensive volume offers a complete and up-to-date overview of dermatologic therapeutics, including the...  Read More >>

This contributed volume examines the intersection of social work, environmental justice, and disaster risk reduction...  Read More >>

HITMAN TELLS ALL: Real Life Facts of the Mafia and the Witness Protection ProgramTrue Story Told by Zack Carusso...  Read More >>

Alva Myrdal (1902-1986): Architect of the Future. She was the chief planner of the modern Swedish welfare state,...  Read More >>

In Sweetness & Light, Melinda Worth Popham returns to 1950s Kansas City and to her Mission Hills neighborhood, where...  Read More >>

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

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