Social services and welfare, criminology

Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations.

The International Criminal Court remains a sensitive issue in American foreign policy circles.

In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty.

In 1933 President Franklin D.

While much foreign aid achieves commendable goals, some is ineffective.

The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them.

A popular version of history trumpets the United States as a diverse "e;nation of immigrants,"e; welcome to all.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children.

Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life.

Should chronically disruptive students be allowed to remain in public schools?

Because of its potential impact, and, in some cases, the harm it has brought, foreign aid is under the microscope.

Work over Welfare tells the inside story of the legislation that ended "e;welfare as we know it.

Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder.

A Brookings Institution Press and Governance Institute publicationA nation of great resources, the United States is confronted all too often with headlines about shootings in schools and with the unsettling reality that homicide rates for juveniles far exceed that of other industrialized nations.

A Brookings Institution Press, Committee for Economic Development, and Urban Institute Press publicationFor decades, the use of vouchers has been widely debated.

Building on their past work in race and family communication, Rhunette C.

Building on their past work in race and family communication, Rhunette C.

Darf man Menschen zu einer Impfung nötigen?

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers - Daniel and Alexander Macmillan - who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world.

Over the years immersing myself into the topic of Social Security, I began noticing that other authors focused on the past, or the history of our country's largest (and oldest) Entitlement program.

How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses.

In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "e;The Realizational Model"e;, that is consistent with the core concepts of Soto Zen Buddhism and psychoanalytic practice.

This book is a valuable historical record of how counselling psychologists responded to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe.

This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels.

How Change Happens in Equine-Assisted Interventions gives clinicians and researchers an intervention theory on the mechanisms of change during psychotherapy and other interventions that incorporate horses.

This book is a valuable historical record of how counselling psychologists responded to the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe.

In this book, Cooper brings together psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by offering a comprehensive and integrated model, described as "e;The Realizational Model"e;, that is consistent with the core concepts of Soto Zen Buddhism and psychoanalytic practice.

This book underscores the importance of moving beyond lip service or hollow platitudes to mobilize and expand the capacity of social justice movements to foster policy change and incubate new programs at the local, state, and federal levels.

Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.

The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice.

According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society; decentralized democratic communities; and sustainable technologies.

Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families.

Running from a life she didn't choose, in a city she doesn't know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo.

This brief maps the available data augmented by expert interviews on the impact of the Covid-19 measures on DV in eight European Member States during the first lock-down.

Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only health and wellbeing but also governance, economies, social relations, and our interaction with the natural environment.

In its new edition, The Practice of Generalist Social Work provides in-depth understanding of the knowledge, skills, values, and affective and cognitive processes needed for social work practice in the present moment.

This comprehensive second edition provides an updated essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising.

School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.

Police Administration, 11th Edition, is a best-selling textbook that examines police administration from multiple perspectives: a systems perspective (emphasizing the interrelatedness among units and organizations); a traditional, structural perspective (administrative principles, management functions, and the importance of written guidelines); a human behavioral perspective (the human element in organizations); and a strategic management perspective (communications and information systems, performance evaluation, strategies and tactics, and prevailing and promising approaches to increasing effectiveness of police agencies).

First published in 1991, Sex Crime in the News is a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press.

First published in 1991, Sex Crime in the News is a unique examination of the nature of sex crime reporting in the press.

This book is full of ideas about how social work education can confront the individualising and often blaming form of social work that neoliberalism ushered in four decades ago.

This comprehensive second edition provides an updated essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising.

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention.

This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention.

School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective.

The term 'sensitive research' is applied to a wide range of issues and settings.