Social services and welfare, criminology

This book applies the dynamic field of transitional justice to conflict resolution in Israel/Palestine.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

This book addresses issues related with researching sensitive topics in social work, focusing on marginalized, vulnerable and hard to reach people.

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Where does violence come from?

The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible.

This book is an accessible guide for understanding and treating psychological trauma.

The book examines whether small jurisdictions (states) are confronted with specific issues providing social security and how to deal with these issues.

This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book examines violence against women in Africa and criminal justice from the perspective of African scholars, practitioners and experts.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This book examines the U.

The Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty (the ENRICH) programme is being implemented by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), which is a government-established Foundation and implements its programmes through Partner NGOs.

This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation.

A public health approach to human trafficking requires a nuanced understanding of its root causes.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

This innovative and timely work explores how the developmental criminology paradigm can be applied to understandings beyond criminal careers, to the development of more general antisocial behavior.

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking into account how concepts such as subjective well-being (SWB) can be used to measure the expected impact of enacted policies.

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses.

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplinary epistemic communities in the worlds of European welfare markets.

This edited volume connects the origins of US higher education during the Colonial Era with current systemic characteristics that maintain white supremacist structures and devalue students and faculty of color, as well as areas of study that interrogate Whiteness.

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, "e;why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?

In 2008, the European Commission relaunched the policy idea of active inclusion, with the aim of facilitating the integration of people into sustainable and quality employment.

This book explores the rise, size and shape of the European fitness industry by using harmonised data as well as in-depth analyses of national surveys in fifteen European countries.

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "e;proximity violence"e;.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology.

This book examines the use of social network analysis (SNA) in operational environments from the perspective of those who actually apply it.

This book provides an overview of crimes involving water, including pollution, illegal dumping, and supply chain disruption from a criminological perspective.

Shifting Solidarities offers a comprehensive analysis of solidarity at a time when major social transformations have penetrated the heart of European societies, disrupting markets and labour relations, transforming social practices, and affecting the moral infrastructure of European welfare states.

This book reviews how new and promising evidence-based interventions are being used with those involved in the criminal justice system.

This book explores the journey of young people through a Secure Training Centre and, more generally, the criminal justice system in the UK.

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends - it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.

This book addresses the disintegration of collective units of all kinds, under the twin pressures of economic globalisation and technological automation.

This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies.

This book examines the 'war on terror' and radicalization from an ontological, non-state centric perspective.

This book provides an overview of factors fostering well-being in Latin America and discusses many threats to well-being in the region.

This book provides a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative, longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national governments' anti-trafficking measures.

This book discusses the crucial place that assumptions hold in conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating development programs.

This book considers the practical management of sudden death and offers first-hand reflections of how emergency physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals cope.

This book investigates notions of 'quality' in early childhood settings both in Australia and globally.

This book reviews the social role of universities in their local urban contexts and describes a number of initiatives of major interest in terms of the impact achieved, the range of stakeholders involved, and the significance of the university campus and teachers as agents of change.

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years.

This book addresses the intersection of two current major concerns in Australia: law and justice responses to domestic violence - including harsher punitive measures - and the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, which are similar concerns in New Zealand, Canada and the US.