Social services and welfare, criminology

The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development.

This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2022 edition of the Singapore Conference of Applied Psychology (SCAP), led by East Asia Research in Singapore in collaboration with the University of Derby in the UK and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

China's Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped global notions of surveillance, making it into European Union legislation and hundreds of media headlines.

This book offers a collection of original, state-of-the-art essays addressing various aspects of the economic analysis of inequality, deprivation, poverty measurement and social polarization, at both the theoretical and empirical level.

This longitudinal study is based on the story of Lola, who was gang raped during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

This book focuses on children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Myanmar since the regime-change event in 2021.

This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the complex and evolving manifestations of violence through a comparative and contextual lens.

This book is the first to examine trauma-informed criminal justice responses to the commission of crime and its impact through empathy and humanity.

This book problematises the socioeconomic and institutional construction of prostitution in Thai contexts, identifying the root causes that propel underprivileged, discriminated and deprived women and girls to enter the sex industry.

This book discusses biopsychosocial barriers and facilitators of long-term care services, focusing on health promotional activities targeted to maximize quality of life.

The book critically engages with the right to play and other Convention rights to explore their interdependence and interconnectivity.

This book explores the underrepresentation of youth in political institutions and its impact on young people's connection to democracy.

Internationally there is a growing awareness that domestic, family, and sexual violence is a social issue that results from social structures and relational contexts that have positioned women as 'less than' men.

This book focuses on children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Myanmar since the regime-change event in 2021.

Eine Soziale Arbeit, die für sich 'Kritik' bzw.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

This book explores various practices and policies related to ageing issues in India.

This book assesses the changes that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) could produce by boosting the competitiveness of firms in India and Korea.

This book introduces the core concepts of bloodstain pattern analysis that help to understand and make independent contributions to crime scenes accurately.

This book focuses on the links between family, education, and employment systems in the Asian developed economies, proposing that these three systems and their interrelations are powerful factors causing the low fertility in Asia.

This book asserts that women attain higher levels of health in the mothering role when they achieve increased control over their own health, lifestyle and environment.

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels.

This book addresses the key issues, challenges and implications arising out of unauthorised acts of character merchandising.

This book is a definitive, comprehensive understanding to social science research methodology.

This book draws attention to the nonlegal, sociocultural aspects of justice for minorities in China.

This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization.

What can Chinese economists learn from the Japanese economic boom and subsequent stagnation?

Was können chinesische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus dem japanischen Wirtschaftsboom und der anschließenden Stagnation lernen?

This book revisits the life and crimes of Ted Bundy.

High-threat decision-making is intrinsic to many domains and carries an individual, organizational, and social responsibility.

This book gives an overview of the empirical research regarding police discretionary decision-making worldwide through 2022 by means of a scoping review.

Was können chinesische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus dem japanischen Wirtschaftsboom und der anschließenden Stagnation lernen?

This book presents interdisciplinary studies that analyze how social stigma affects people who use psychoactive substances.

This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research.

This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary data from nationally representative surveys and primary data from qualitative interviews.

This book analyzes the different policy challenges that Pakistani women face and makes regionally relevant policy recommendations across different areas of private and public life, drawing on secondary data from nationally representative surveys and primary data from qualitative interviews.

This handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people across different countries, focusing on important issues affecting ageing societies.

This handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on older people across different countries, focusing on important issues affecting ageing societies.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2023, held in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2023.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2023, held in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2023.

This book presents an overview of social problems and health problems that arose out of, or were flared up by, the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This book presents an overview of social problems and health problems that arose out of, or were flared up by, the global COVID-19 pandemic.

This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally.

This book assesses the extent to which good governance may contribute to enhancing economic performance and social welfare in developing countries, globally.

Myanmar has faced numerous divisions that hinder its democratization and peacebuilding processes since emerging out of decades of military dictatorship.

This book presents the concept of Spiritual Jewish criminology.

This volume emerges from the author's extensive professional journey spanning over two decades, drawing from her work in behavioural sciences, training, and applied psychology.

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