Social services and welfare, criminology

Exploring the nuances and complexities in men's and women's accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines.

Treating nuclear, biological, and chemical agent exposures presents a unique set of challenges.

This book delves into the history of biometrics, the different systems that have been developed to date, problems that have arisen from these systems, the necessity of AI-based biometrics systems, different AI techniques developed to date (including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and pattern recognition), their potential uses and applications, security and privacy issues in AI-based Biometric systems, current trends in AI-based biometrics, and presents case studies of AI-based biometrics.

Advances in Group Therapy Trauma Treatment contains compelling theoretical, clinical, and research advances in group trauma therapy by leading experts in the field.

The security governance of South Africa has faced immense challenges amid post-apartheid constitutional and political transformations.

In an era defined by rapid digital transformation, Agile Security in the Digital Era: Challenges and Cybersecurity Trends emerges as a pivotal resource for navigating the complex and ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

¿Qué impide o promueve que un posible delito se judicialice en México?

Do you want to understand how best to embrace the challenges, surprises, and successes of research?

This book delves into the critical question of how counseling can help individuals navigate and resolve these struggles.

Redeem Your Adoption Journey In this groundbreaking book, adoption advocates Betsy S.

This book explores the significant changes in Chinese journalism education in response to the rapid development of digital and new media technologies.

Four factors are rapidly converging into a "e;silver tsunami"e; that will soon challenge every aspect of American society: 1) the increasing number of people living with dementias; 2) the mounting number of people providing dementia care, whether they want to or not; 3) the spiraling healthcare costs of dementia care; and 4) the lack of geriatricians to provide medical care and oversight.

This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.

This manual sets out an accessible model for assessing the emotional needs of traumatised children and young adults and using the outcomes of the assessment to develop individualised therapeutic programmes to support their needs and emotional development.

This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals.

The art of printing in Egypt, a unique history, especially the Boulaq printing press, which many did not pay attention to due to the causal link between it and the renaissance of Egypt in the modern era.

Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format.

Step into the world of the 8th century BCE and uncover the profound messages of Amos, a prophet whose voice called for justice and righteousness in a time of inequality and spiritual complacency.

This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals.

Addressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK.

Studying the flagship New York City Police Department is critical to understanding policing and democratic society.

In AIM High, Jacqueline Pei and Lia M.

Maurice Tyree went to prison thinking that life was disposable.

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every fourth mother conceived her first-born before her wedding day; and among the children below school-leaving age over half a million were illegitimate - figures that were paralleled in many countries of Europe and the Commonwealth at the time.

In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control.

First published in 1972, The Social Worker in Family Situations sets out to provide a theoretical basis for the practice of the family casework approach.

Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture.

An introductory critical internet studies text that builds upon media literacy and digital culture theory to offer a thorough examination of the intersection of online technology and culture.

Thanks to writers like Mario Puzo, filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and actors like Al Pacino and James Gandolfini, American and Sicilian Mafia characters are well-known figures in contemporary popular culture.

This book analyses trends and data relating to issues affecting social policy in mature welfare states in Europe, and uses these elements to further our understanding of, and ability to try to say something about, the future of social policy, its direction and content.

Impulse für die PraxisKaum etwas wird zurzeit in Psychologie und Psychotherapie mit so viel Interesse aufgenommen wie die Polyvagaltheorie.

Junge Menschen haben das Recht auf ein gesundes, gewaltfreies Aufwachsen und die bestmögliche Gesundheit (Art 24 UN-KRK), was durch das sozialstaatliche Unterstützungssystem verwirklicht werden soll.

The preoccupation with the unemployment-crime link has meant that a number of other concerns about the way that unemployment affects the criminal justice system, and ways of dealing with offenders, have been largely ignored.

False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime provides investigators and forensic examiners with a reference manual comprised of objective protocols for managing cases.

This volume centers on the relationship between media and crisis communication, the need to address which has only been heightened by the recent experience of COVID-19 and the needs for public health crisis communication.

This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them.

False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime provides investigators and forensic examiners with a reference manual comprised of objective protocols for managing cases.

Within The Craft of the Secure Base Coach, the authors take a new and combined approach to the professions of coaching and counselling to provide a guide for professionals wanting to better assist individuals and teams in periods of transition.

Zero to Hero: Your Guide to a Career in Cybersecurity is an essential roadmap for anyone aiming to penetrate the vibrant and ever-expanding domain of cybersecurity.

The effective mentoring of new associates used to be a natural part of the process for law firms, but nowadays economic pressures are inhibiting the practice; personal mentoring is being eliminated by the fiscal restraints of higher starting salaries and client insistence on fewer lawyers, and hands-on experience is hard to come by.

This book offers reflections on emerging issues in psychiatry today, told through the lens of interviews conducted with patients of the former Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals in Italy.