Social services and welfare, criminology

Packed with information, advice and learning activities, this book tells you what you need to know about drugs, young people's drug use, and how you can help them stay safe.

Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life.

This is the first textbook to show how research using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods relates to improving health and social care practice.

This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cultivating respectful and productive academic relationships is a priority within higher education.

The belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars, as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of peace, as brutalised veterans are released on to a labour market reorganising for peace, has a long pedigree in Britain.

It was almost November 2012 when Hurricane Sandy, a late arrival in an otherwise quiet tropical season, slammed into the Mid-Atlantic US coastline.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

This book provides an authoritative and highly readable review of the relationship between madness and crime by one of the leading authorities in the field.

This book focuses on the socio-cultural changes and issues experienced in ASEAN and the European Union in the post-pandemic world.

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This book assesses which work-family policies work best, and explains why they are unlikely to be adopted everywhere.

'There are 3,000 drugged-up psychopaths, armed to the teeth with blades, shooters and bombs.

Childrens Services: Working Together brings together contributions from a number of authors in the field.

Public policy thinking and implementation is both a process of intellectual thought and rationale for governing.

This book brings together cutting-edge contemporary research and discussion concerning drinking practices among young adults (individuals aged approximately 18-30 years old).

Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world.

Kinship care - the care of children by grandparents, other relatives or friends - is a major part of foster care, yet there are distinct issues that arise in care involving family rather than 'stranger' foster carers.

The book discusses a comprehensive overview of various limnological approaches for climate studies, and sheds light on a multi-dimensional approach (i.

The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book.

Chapter One examines what available data indicate about pregnant women detained or held in DHS facilities, DHS policies and standards that address the care of pregnant women, and what is known about the care provided to pregnant women in DHS facilities.

Mexico's Drug War and Criminal Networks examines the effects of technology on three criminal organizations: the Sinaloa cartel, the Zetas, and the Caballeros Templarios.

Criminalization is a new series arising from an interdisciplinary investigation into the issue of criminalization, focussing on the principles and goals that should guide decisions about what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and the forms that criminalization should take.

This book explores the organization and divisions of labour of domestic and care work in modern France and in so doing, reveals some of the drivers of and obstacles to change in the relationship between gender, the family, and the French state.

This new edition of A Clinician's Guide to Systemic Sex Therapy integrates the latest empirical research from the field of sex therapy and demonstrates how clinicians can optimize their treatment for a wide range of clients.

Beratung findet in der Sozialen Arbeit immer häufiger digital statt.

This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty.

Family life has been radically transformed over the past three decades.

This rare comprehensive critique of criminology in India brings together widely respected activists, advocates, bureaucrats, scholars and practitioners who share their concerns about the Indian criminal justice system through an interdisciplinary lens and discuss the need to entrench human rights in Indian polity.

Taking stock of the technological, political, economic, and social trends that exist today, this book extends the discussion to analyze and predict how these trends will affect the public relations and strategic communication industry of the future.

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of bourgeois capitalist enterprise.

Community work is a unique and important activity that has the potential to help individuals, groups and communities achieve change.

This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

The loss of intimacy is one of the most difficult-but also one of the most common-factors in the destruction of any relationship.

"e;There are so many things I wish I could have told my parents when I was a child, but back then I did not have the words.

You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they offer.

All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure.

Adoption in the Digital Age explores the transformation of adoption due to social and digital media technologies.

This book provides a wide-ranging and accessible textbook covering the main areas of civil liberties and human rights law as it applies to England and Wales, meeting the requirements of undergraduate law syllabuses.

Dieses Standardwerk der Feuerwehrausbildung erläutert, orientiert an den Lernzielkatalogen für die Ausbildung des mittleren feuerwehrtechnischen Dienstes und der Feuerwehr-Dienstvorschrift 2 "Ausbildung der Freiwilligen Feuerwehren", die vollständige Feuerwehr-Grundausbildung für Berufs- und Werkfeuerwehren sowie für Freiwillige Feuerwehren.

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Clinicians have long recognized that trauma therapy provides a pathway to recovery, and Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma provides that pathway for those who work with horses and clients together.

Microextraction Techniques in Analytical Toxicology provides the information readers need to include about cutting-edge sample preparation techniques into their everyday analytical practice, including comprehensive information about principles and state-of-the-art microextraction sample preparation techniques for the analysis of drugs and poisons in biological specimens, especially in forensic and clinical settings.

In Single-Session Therapy: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions, Windy Dryden takes the questions raised by participants from his workshops and training events on SST and provides answers in a fresh and accessible format.

At times, a congregational transition looms so large in a sermon that it becomes the lens through which scripture is interpreted, the congregation is addressed, the preacher is heard, and God is experienced.