Social services and welfare, criminology

This short Pivot explores the the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of the lived experiences of asylum seekers on the staff and volunteers of third sector organisations who assist and support them.

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.

This book is a study of the legal aspects of the birth and development of an international organisation, using the example of INTERPOL as a detailed case study.

Nigeria has become one of the hotbeds of cybercrime since the liberalization of the telecommunication industry began in 1996.

Providing an overview of the knowledge and methods required by professionals working in a mandated setting with adults who have committed offences, Forensic Social Work presents evidence-based knowledge in an accessible way that can be directly translated to application in daily practice.

This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice.

As natural disasters increase in number, strength, and frequency in the United States and around the world, local government managers must confront the reality that their community may be the next to experience a natural disaster.

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

Why do people stop offending?

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 provides a pragmatic roadmap for mastering project delivery in civil and infrastructure engineering—one that applies across both developing and industrialized nations.

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.