Social services and welfare, criminology

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.

Features ASWB test-taking strategies and in-depth rationales for every question!

Features improved ASWB exam prep strategies, expanded analysis of exam content, and proven test-taking tips!

Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!

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Beneath the Tapestry devotional walks alongside hopeful adoptive parents and families through the process of adoption and beyond.

"e;This is the first book to give social workers the tools to understand their clients' legal needs and rights and to address them collaboratively and effectively.

This clear and accessible guideowritten by social workers for social workersodescribes the most current developments in neuroscience and their practical applications for social work in education, child welfare, health, mental health, and criminal justice settings.

Multicultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice with Families is in its thirdedition and continues to expand the depth and breadth with which culturemay be understood and the impact of culture in working with families.

2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in Critical Care--Emergency Nursing!

Learning about Learning Disabilities, Fourth Edition continues to provide equal attention to the intellectual, conceptual, and practical aspects of learning disabilities.

Crime Reconstruction, Second Edition is an updated guide to the interpretation of physical evidence, written for the advanced student of forensic science, the practicing forensic generalist and those with multiple forensic specialists.

Mouse Behavioral Testing: How to Use Mice in Behavioral Neuroscience provides detailed explanations of how to conduct an experiment on mouse behavior from the initial planning of the research design through every step of the process until the data analysis phase.

The Law of Emergencies discusses the legal framework for disaster response and emergency management.

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

This important text explores the deep relationships between poverty, health/mental health conditions, and widespread social problems as they affect the lives of low-income women.

One of the most widely used assessments of infants and toddlers, the BAYLEY-III measures the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning.

Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults-a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world.

A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world.

When Movements Matter accounts for the origins of Social Security as we know it.

Seven Deadliest Social Network Attacks describes the seven deadliest social networking attacks and how to defend against them.

Restorative practice is an innovative approach to thinking about, and addressing, conflict and bullying, as well as disruptive, challenging and criminal behaviour.

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the experience of dementia and on the provision of support and services, both in general terms and in relation to specific minority ethnic communities.

Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.

Based on extensive clinical research, this book sheds new light onto how Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can be used with older adults as an effective complementary intervention, identifying specific ways in which MBSR programmes can be adapted and fine-tuned to meet the needs of this group.

These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team.

Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges fills a gap in the market by covering new topics and angles not addressed in other literature.

Unlike other books, courses and training that expect an analyst to piece together individual instructions into a cohesive investigation, Investigating Windows Systems provides a walk-through of the analysis process, with descriptions of the thought process and analysis decisions along the way.

Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence: Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations will assist those who have never collected mobile evidence and augment the work of professionals who are not currently performing advanced destructive techniques.

Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton.

Our bodies record what happens to us physically throughout our lives.

The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology.

Forensic science has been under scrutiny for some time, since the release of the NAS report in 2009.

Cell Phone Location Evidence for Legal Professionals: Understanding Cell Phone Location Evidence from the Warrant to the Courtroom is a guide, in plain language, for digital forensics professionals, attorneys, law enforcement professionals and students interested in the sources, methods and evidence used to perform forensic data analysis of cell phones, call detail records, real time ping records and geo-location data obtained from cellular carriers and cell phones.

Contemporary Security Management, Fourth Edition, identifies and condenses into clear language the principal functions and responsibilities for security professionals in supervisory and managerial positions.

Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today's society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations.

Effective Physical Security, Fourth Edition is a best-practices compendium that details the essential elements to physical security protection.

Bullock, Haddow, and Coppola have set the standard for homeland security textbooks, and they follow up their #1-selling third edition with this substantially improved version.

Investigative Case Management is a "e;first look"e; excerpted from Brett Shavers' new Syngress book, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard.

Cybercrime Investigation Case Studies is a "e;first look"e; excerpt from Brett Shavers' new Syngress book, Placing the Suspect Behind the Keyboard.

Forensic Fraud is the culmination of 12 years of research by author Brent E.

A story of institutionalized police brutality and how Chicago's public outcry led to long-lasting criminal justice reforms.

Profiling and Serial Crime examines the principles of behavioral profiling and then applies them to serial crime.

The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge.

Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background.

Behavior is shaped by both genetics and experience--nature and nurture.

The blind person who tries to make an online purchase.

Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models.

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.

DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations and has become a powerful tool in the identification of individuals in criminal and paternity cases.