Social services and welfare, criminology

The contributors to Grandparenting in the United States, edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Ynesse Abdul-Malak of Syracuse University, use a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sets to assess how grandparenting, and its impacts, vary by living arrangements, economic status, education, gender, race, ethnicity, and other stratifying variables.

This fully-revised Second Edition looks at how practitioners and students can achieve best-practice when working with vulnerable adults.

Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families.

Learn to use the latest technological advances in evidence-based social workSocial work practice can be positively or negatively impacted by the advance of technology.

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

This guide provides healthcare students and professionals with a foundational background on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - traumatic early life experiences, which can have a profound impact on health in later life.

Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity.

Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2019Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2018Cybersecurity, or information technology security, focuses on protecting computers and data from criminal behavior.

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Political Illustration introduces students of illustration, visual communication, art, and political science to how political illustration works, when it's used and why.

The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic Tiger; and from the rise to the fall of the Catholic Church.

This book aims to share information about the experiences of birth parents and those currently working therapeutically with them, with the hope of promoting greater understanding and improved service development.

This practical book enables students to develop key counselling skills that can help to enhance their practice and help to place the service-user at the centre of the decision making process.

Homicide represents the result of an exhaustive search of the world literature regarding homicide.

In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public care work and show how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as cultural differences in values in the UK and Norway set the context for how migrant care workers can realise their individual life projects.

The arts - spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres - constitute an alternative lens through which to understand state-sanctioned punishment and its place in public consciousness.

Environmental gerontology - the research on aging and environment - evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people.

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman.

If you are in search of a concise yet authoritative overview of mediation as a process of dispute resolution, then you need look no further.

The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them.

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume.

White-Collar Crime: An Opportunity Perspective analyzes white-collar crime within a coherent theoretical framework.

Widely regarded as the standard clinical reference, this volume provides the best current knowledge about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, adolescents, and adults.

This book allows readers access to the reality of student paramedic life, which is essential in considering a career as a paramedic.

Immigration and its consequences is a substantially contested subject with hugely differing viewpoints.

Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy, 6th ed, offers counseling students and professionals a distinctive lifespan approach that emphasizes the importance of social justice and diversity in mental health practice.

Huge numbers of people want to write for children, but it is notoriously difficult to find a publisher in this increasingly comeptitive area.

This book presents an ethnographic study on gestational surrogacy in India.

Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences.

Nearly two-thirds of American women with children under age six are in the labor force.

This book introduces the 'Southern criminology' movement; explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools; offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions; and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from Southern settings.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China.

This book provides a critical assessment of the problem of internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation.

'Jim Beaman's Interviewing for Radio is a classic and seminal practice text, brilliantly written and masterful in its content.

First responders in the fire, emergency, and police agencies work in high-risk, critical situations, and require effective leadership.

Updated, reorganized, and streamlined to focus squarely on ethical decision making in counseling and psychotherapy and in the practice of specialties in counseling.

Youth Work Process and Practice provides an overview of the central concerns in youth work today, exploring what youth work actually consists in and developing an authentic theoretical framework for practice.

Still broadcasting today, the world's first radio station was invented by Charles Herrold in 1909 in San Jose, California.

How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead?

Disrupting Journalism Ethics sets out to disrupt and change how we think about journalism and its ethics.

Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Social Support, Life Events, and Depression describes a research program that looked into the social process of mental health.

It is an inescapable fact that causation, both generally (in populations), and specifically (in individuals), cannot be observed.

This book explores continuity and change in British multiculturalism.

Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of 'vulnerable' groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings.