Social services and welfare, criminology

As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.

This book delves into the values, attitudes, and behaviours of Koreans over the course of the past twenty years.

Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions.

The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics.

Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies.

"e;Our problem is not racial, but human and economic.

This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa.

This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022–2024.

Praise for the previous edition:an excellent resource for all trainee and beginning counsellors irrespective of theoretical orientation.

"e;With the compelling evidence that more redistributive universal welfare benefits and education provide the main escalator to reducing inequalities, this is a timely and thought-provoking book for all those concerned to reduce our societies embedded structural inequalities, cumulative disadvantages and health inequalities.

This book analyzes how the use of digital media by young children can affect their development.

This book presents current scholarship designed to decolonize, reform and confront the Euro-centric dominance in social work education and practice.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2024, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, during July 17-19, 2024.

This book offers a broad international analysis of healthcare corruption, drawing upon criminology, sociology, psychology, law, political and behavioural economics  and nudge theory.

This book presents insights into how affective educational experiences may be associated with youth criminal behaviour and the pathway to recidivism.

"e;Sustainability Stories"e; is an impactful book that offers a global perspective on the grand theme of sustainability.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2024, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, during July 17-19, 2024.

This book provides a comprehensive account of one significantly underreported aspect of violence affecting young refugee girls today, that of forced child marriage.

This volume considers the most appropriate criminal jurisdiction to prosecute aggravated sex trafficking of the kind associated with northern Albanian crime groups.

This book critically analyzes how European countries manage family-related challenges as they grapple with social and political transformations.

This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished, and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization's 1978 'Health for All' campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in health care within a global context.

A New York Times Best Seller!

A New York Times Best Seller!

This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein's X-efficiency theory.

Taking the Goki-Shichido (Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan from a regional variation perspective by municipality along the ancient Sannyodo, which comprises eight provinces and four prefectures today.

"e;Public Health for the 21st Century is a comprehensive consideration of the emerging challenges for public health policy makers.

Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Rats, tainted food, leaky sewage pipes: they only began to hint at the anarchy inside the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange.

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to confront one of the most urgent global challenges of our time violent radicalisation and extremism.

The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research.

This book contends with the question of how to decolonise criminology and discusses a number of key aspects of the debate.

This book delves into Trinidad and Tobago's development with a fresh lens.

"e;Provides a very clear, easily readable introduction to the wide range of criminological theories.

"e;A diverse and extremely useful set of chapters at the cutting edge of thinking on work with sexual minorities.

This book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations during the pandemic from a comparative perspective in a facts-based, data-supporting manner.

This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of punishment, justice and human rights.

This Compendium was conceived as a "e;pocket compass"e;, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.

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Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare-an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

This book thoroughly prepares intermediate-level readers for research in social science, organization studies, economics, finance, marketing science, and business science as complex adaptive systems.

This book offers a new perspective and empirical evidence that are relevant for understanding changes in family structures, intergenerational relationships, and female labor force participation in the "e;strong family"e; societies and that also shed light on those in the "e;weak family"e; societies.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.