Social services and welfare, criminology

How can mainstream Western social work learn from and in turn help advance indigenous practice?

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions.

Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class?

As businesses continue to expand globally into new and emerging markets, bribery and corruption risks have increased exponentially.

Addressing common myths and misconceptions about sexual offending, this book highlights the current state of scientific knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual offending.

Learn why it is imperative to bring a progressive focus back to social welfare policy!

Gain fresh perspectives on pastoral care and counseling from international experts!

Focusing on how someone in need can best be helped, the author identifies the skills and honesty of the person who wants to help as key to how effective this can be.

Public safety professionals work together in life-and-death situations.

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied.

A practical approach to understanding social work concepts in action that integrates theory and practice In this updated edition of the classic social work text, students and instructors have access to real-world demonstrations of how social work theories and concepts can be applied in practice.

Appropriate for health administrators in departments of sociology, social policy and nursing.

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Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is a guide to working with children and young people who present with either obvious or hidden suicidal thoughts, preoccupations, or plans.

Focusing on the trafficking of women and girls from a feminist perspective, this book examines how social structures and gender influence human trafficking.

This expanded third edition of a popular textbook provides a completely revised and updated overview of the theories, models, and therapies that inform direct social work practice.

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This book addresses the practical management of mental health scenarios in the emergency setting and offers first-hand reflections on how emergency nurses, practitioners and allied mental health professionals handle these situations.

This book approaches environmental, climate, and social justice comprehensively and interlinked.

Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, this book explores the key challenges associated with the proliferation of cyber capabilities.

Over the past two decades, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) emerged as a leading-edge method for helping parents improve their children's disruptive and oppositional behavior.

Studying for a Foundation Degree in Health is designed to provide clear, relevant knowledge and to support appropriate skills development amongst students enrolled on foundation degree and equivalent level courses, in health and social care.

Curated by the chief editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, this book presents engaging and accessible chapters that capture current and essential research findings from leaders in the sexuality education field.

First Published in 2014.

In this revised edition of Strengthening the DSM, the authors use a comprehensive yet easy-to-grasp formulation of diversity and resilience to establish the most accurate diagnostic criteria for each psychiatric condition.

First puiblished in 1998, this book provides a professional and practical guide detailing social work interventions for people with dementia and their carers.

FORENSIC SCIENCE Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions presents a comprehensive, international discussion of key issues within the forensic sciences.

The book ';MODERNIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION' cover the topics Modernity and Social Theory; Modernization Theory; Internet Technology and Social Work; Modernity and Social Work; Social Work Education and Practice Environment; Social Security for Persons with Disabilities Social; Security for Unorganised Workers; Social Movements, Culture and Society; Panchayati Raj: Planning and Administration; Importance of Training in Social Work Planning and Administration; Manager and Leader.

Identity Transformation and Posttraumatic Growth Following Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder provides an autoethnographic qualitative study that portrays the author's recovery from a devastating life-changing event - a car crash resulting in the hybrid diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), leading to posttraumatic growth (PTG) and identity transformation over a ten-year recovery period.

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives offers modern techniques for obtaining clues from postmortem evidence.

Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.

Research shows that many adults with serious mental illness live with or maintain contact with their families.

This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools.

Social problems are endemic to all societies.

In the 1970s, an important change of emphasis had occurred in the field of alcoholism.

This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.

This superbly illustrated book examines all aspects of the use of modern post-mortem imaging in forensic investigations, which has flourished since the introduction of multidetector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

A practical handbook for programming directors, this guide focuses on achieving specific objectives in today's modern, competitive environment.

Criminology is a dynamic and evolving field of study.

Cybercrime and Information Technology: Theory and Practice-The Computer Network Infostructure and Computer Security, Cybersecurity Laws, Internet of Things (IoT), and Mobile Devices is an introductory text addressing current technology, trends, and security issues.

Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas.

Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance?

First published in 1998, this volume examines risk in probation practice through consideration of the context, the risk differences and how to reconcile them.

This book updates prior research that utilized the perceptions of criminal investigators of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), and compares these perceptions with immigration enforcement priorities that were implemented post 911, through the Obama Administration up to the Trump presidency.

With the aim to synthesise and simplify the core concepts of corporate communications, this book offers a clear look at the history of the discipline and profession with attention to essential principles for practice.