Social services and welfare, criminology

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and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

Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

This book offers essential information on interventions and actions that enable and promote transition experiences for adolescents and young adults.

A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the "e;revolt against psychiatry,"e; including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists.

This book describes numerous projects which shed light on some of the most persistent issues of the day in health and social care.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

This book explores the extent to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has influenced peace processes in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book presents a study of street children's involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka.

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

This book identifies and examines the novel ways in which money is laundered internationally through illegal activities on the internet, focusing on sales, payments, social media, online gaming, and tax misapplication.

This book studies and disaggregates the "e;crisis of the suburbs"e; in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood.

This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion.

Human rights violations and traumatic events often comingle in victims' experiences; however, the human rights framework and trauma theory are rarely deployed together to illuminate such experiences.

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach.

In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines.

This book explores the opportunities and limitations of campus-community partnerships in Israel.

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 examines the current debate about UK street gangs termed the 'UK Gang Thesis' debate.

In England, it has been possible since 2013 to convert an office building into residential use without needing planning permission (as has been required since 1948).

Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.

This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience.

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries.

How, where and when can a universal basic income be put into political practice?

This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation.

This insightful work answers essential questions in family therapy by exploring the ethical use of religion and spirituality in the clinical context.

This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand.

This book charts contemporary developments in counter-extremism within the UK education sector.

This book explores the dramatic evolution of a feminist movement that mobilised to challenge a women's prison system in crisis.

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women in the North of England.

This book explores the consumption of counterfeit fashion goods.

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This book examines serial homicidal poisonings in the modern era, to improve our contemporary understanding of poisons, poisoners, and investigation.

This book explores the politics behind "e;de-liberalization"e;, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms.

This book asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts world-wide to analyse, critique and reform it, it remains an enigma.

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

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations.

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

This handbook addresses the delivery of high quality pediatric behavioral healthcare services that are multitiered, evidence-based, and integrated, involving interprofessional collaboration across child serving systems, such as pediatrician offices and schools.

In this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies.

This handbook addresses the delivery of high quality pediatric behavioral healthcare services that are multitiered, evidence-based, and integrated, involving interprofessional collaboration across child serving systems, such as pediatrician offices and schools.

Das interdisziplinär angelegte Praxishandbuch zur palliativen Versorgung von Menschen mit neurologischen Erkrankungenbietet eine personzentrierte und ressourcenorientierte Perspektive auf die Patient*innen und zielt darauf, deren Lebensqualität und -sinn am Ende des Lebens zu fördern und zu erhaltenerläutert das Grundverständnis der Palliative Care im Kontext der Versorgung neurologischer Patient*innenbeschreibt, wie Symptome neurologisch beeinträchtigter Menschen systematisch erfasst und spezifisch behandelt werden könnenzeigt, wie die Teammitglieder mit kommunikationsbeeinträchtigten, verwirrten und bewusstseinsgestörten Menschen kommunizieren könnenstellt konkrete Behandlungsmöglichkeiten bei Agitation, Delir, Fatigue, Muskeltonuserhöhung, gastrointestinalen und pulmonalen Symptomen sowie Schmerzen und Schlafstörungen vorzeigt neuro-palliative Besonderheiten von Erkrankungen der Muskulatur und des peripheren Nervensystems sowie von ALS, Demenz, MS, Muskelerkrankungen, Parkinson, Schlaganfall und (wach-)komatösen Zuständen aufbeschreibt ethisch schwierige Entscheidungssituationen und zeigt Möglichkeiten, um diese zu analysieren und einvernehmlich zu lösenstellt mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen enge Bezüge zur Praxis her.

Seit Jahrhunderten faszinieren sie die Menschheit: Vampire und Werwölfe, Wesen der Dunkelheit, die die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Monster verwischen.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.