Social services and welfare, criminology

This book makes a distinctive contribution to reflections on what child-centred practice means in the complex area of child welfare.

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness.

Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies.

This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.

This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on in-depth analyses of four cases studies with distinct development trajectories (Mexico, Indonesia, Chile and South Korea).

This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses.

The New Deal as a Triumph of Social Work concerns the 'hand' the New Deal plays from the perspective of early American History in which government and business cooperation is assumed and economic rights are addressed collectively whereas political rights are considered individually.

This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan.

This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War.

This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry.

What is charity?

The Little Rock Crisis frames the story of the Little Rock 1957 desegregation crisis through the lens of memory.

Food Stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), has endured and expanded in recent years.

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.

This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology.

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people.

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East.

This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government.

The Social Practice of Human Rights bridges the conventional scholar-practitioner divide by focusing on the space in between.

This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015.

This book provides a critical analysis of criminological scholarship in Malaysia, presenting a focused exploration of the key qualities and limitations to studies on crime, deviance, victimization and criminal justice in this country.

In Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships, Allen examines the lives of Brazilian women in same-sex relationships.

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

Stories of Care: A Labour of Law is an interdisciplinary study of the interactions of law and labour that shape paid care work.

This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England.

This book explores the success and failures of the Prevent strategy, which was developed by the UK Government to help stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women.

This edited collection provides an innovative and detailed analysis of the relationship between the financial crisis, risk and corruption.

This book explores the significance of riots and public disturbances caused by marginalized youth with a migrant background in France and the Netherlands, and how their demands for recognition, justice and equal opportunities are voiced in uncivil, yet politically meaningful ways.

The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film.

This book provides a critical account of the concept of international protection.

The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind.

In recent years child protection issues have dominated media and public discourse in the UK.

This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories which attempt to explain disaster crime.

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa.

By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions.

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are '.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of sexual homicide.

With the recent media interest in celebrity childhood sexual abuse and rape cases, we think we know what sexual violence is and who 'rape victims' are.

This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds.

Globalization, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable.

This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility.

The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind.

This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners.

Across the globe, violence prevention initiatives focused on men and boys are proliferating rapidly.

Drawing on court records from London and the South West, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England explores medical roles in trials for sexual offences.

This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study.

This unique volume unpacks the concept and practice of naming and shaming by examining how governments, NGOs and international organisations attempt to change the behaviour of targeted actors through public exposure of violations of normative standards and legal commitments.

In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments held by political elites.