Social services and welfare, criminology

Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim question' in Germany and Great Britain.

This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy.

Spectatorship, Embodiment and Physicality in the Contemporary Mutilation Film explores 'physical spectatorship': the representation of mutilation on the screen and the physical responses this evokes.

This book analyzes how strategic intelligence can support decision-makers in national policing organizations to anticipate transnational organized crime (TOC).

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers.

This book provides a short, comprehensive, critical analysis of trafficking in human beings.

Young people, crime and delinquency are words that are commonly linked in public perception and young people are often blamed for social ills.

This book provides a critical engagement with the idea of the 'security society' which has been the focus of so much attention in criminology and the social sciences more broadly.

This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London.

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment.

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval?

An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty.

The contributors investigate how the large scale structures of capitalism and the local social relations of workplaces and organizations shape each other.

As a consultant for healthcare associations working on all the healthcare laws from Medicare, the Health Manpower Act, Budget Reconciliation, Clinton healthcare efforts and the Affordable Healthcare Act, Donald Lavanty had a front-row seat from which to witness the politics and policies motivating each action.

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This book examines Russia's 2013 anti-gay laws and their implications for the Sochi 2014 Olympics.

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour.

This authoritative book explores cases of whistleblowing from around the world, with a focus on cases in South Africa.

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, and to help build a more equal, socially-just society.

This book explores young people's practices and perceptions of sexting and how sexting has been represented and responded to by the media, education campaigns, and the law.

Social Work for Sociologists introduces important frameworks, concepts, models, and skills from social work that will help sociologists as they plan their human service careers and will prepare them to tackle social problems with practical solutions.

This book examines the work of Milton Friedman, which is amongst the most significant in modern economics and, equally, amongst the most contentious.

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse.

The new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid.

Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception.

The voluntary sector has a long history of involvement in criminal justice by providing a variety of services to offenders and their families, victims and witnesses.

This book brings together a collection of essays by leading criminologists to explore the relationship between the private sector and criminal justice.

This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at the heart of sexual violence, mass shooting and control of the illegal drugs trade and examining how better we might understand the violence of the street and the organisations that inhabit it.

Was the Bush administration was successful in legitimating its preferences with habeas corpus, torture, and extraordinary rendition?

Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic employment policy of European Union member states.

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress.

Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture.

Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members.

The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health.

Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day.

This innovative new book aims to put society's fight against terrorism into a comprehensive crime prevention perspective with a clear, understandable theoretical foundation, developing a general model for the prevention of crime which is, in this book, applied to terrorism.

For the first time, European professional deregulation is the focus of reflection by social scientists.

Building upon a range of case studies that range from civil war to maritime security and cyber crime, the contributors analyse how non-state actors can and should be involved in contributing to state and human security.

This is the first book dedicated to Australian youth gangs, exploring the subtleties and nuances of street life for young men and their quest for social respect.

This book examines the treatment of suspects in interrogation and explores issues surrounding the right to silence.

Works of theatre that depict grievous histories derive their force from making audible voices of the past.

Domestic violence in adolescent romantic relationships is an increasingly important and only recently acknowledged social issue.

Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and offers a model for courses, student life programs, and faculty training.

This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing.

This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems are in dealing with these problems through policy innovation.

Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia.

This book examines the meaning of happiness in Britain today, and observes that although we face challenges such as austerity, climate change and disenchantment with politics, we continue to be interested in happiness and living well.

Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals.

We are living in the age of imagination and communication.