Social services and welfare, criminology

This essential career guide equips new professionals and doctoral students with a robust foundation for a long and satisfying career in psychology and other behavioral health professions.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating.

This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

This salient reference grounds readers in the theoretical basis and day-to-day practice of community-based health care programs, and their potential as a transformative force in public health.

This essential career guide equips new professionals and doctoral students with a robust foundation for a long and satisfying career in psychology and other behavioral health professions.

This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations.

This title offers an in-depth analysis of the causes, consequences and treatments of illicit drug abuse.

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage.

This book takes a critical approach to examining British and Italian occupational health and safety enforcement policies and questions the legal and political principles that underpin them.

Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field.

This wide-ranging collection analyzes the status and advancement of women both in a national context and collectively on a global scale, as a powerful social force in a rapidly evolving world.

This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China.

This Brief discusses the role of state-level criminal justice organizations in the prevention and control of crime and delinquency.

This book offers a conceptual re-think of how university community engagement functions as a lifelong learning resource for communities.

This book examines the politics of harm in the context of palm oil production in Colombia, with a primary focus on the Pacific coast region.

This title discusses the phenomenon of alcohol abuse as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This book discusses the immediate and severe threat posed by global climate change and the various obstacles that stand in the way of action.

This book explores young people's experiences of social control and the state, especially those living at the margins of society within the UK.

This work provides an innovative look at the use of open data for extracting information to detect and prevent crime, and also explores the link between terrorism and organized crime.

This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers' susceptibility to increased harm.

This brief highlights several of the most pressing challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness and presents a set of strong policy recommendations for assessment, intervention, research, and service delivery related to homeless children and their parents.

This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States.

This book examines a group-based adaptation of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) designed for use with preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians.

This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe.

This eagerly anticipated book equips readers to understand the dynamics of policy processes, relevant decision-making and the significance of key decision-makers.

This title discusses the phenomenon of smoking as a behavioural disease and the associated costs.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary investigation into extortion rackets with a particular focus on the structures of criminal organisations and their collapse, societal processes in which extortion rackets strive and fail and the impacts of bottom-up and top-down ways of fighting extortion racketeering.

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world.

This book provides practical recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of AML compliance by introducing the theory, framework and approach for dealing with the concerns of Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) within the UK banking industry.

This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country.

This volume addresses the study of family law and society in Europe, from medieval to contemporary ages.

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade.

This timely volume explores the "e;dark side"e; of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping in Africa: when rather than help establish a rule of law in the host country, they become perpetrators of crime.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

The book examines management strategies for developing and implementing strategic resilience and sustainability plans for sustainable and climate-resilient communities and organizations.

This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the clinical phenomenon of pica.

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This book introduces andcontextualizes the revised and strengthened legislation on the laundering ofcriminal funds mandated by the European Union on the 20th May 2015.

This book presents a comprehensive and state-of the-art approach to vascular disease for the geriatric patient, focusing on vascular pathology and interventions but also on perioperative care, anesthetic care, functional outcomes and quality of life, as well as ethical considerations that impact decision making.

This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years.

This forward-thinking reference spotlights an expansive and inclusive community model for youth alcohol prevention as opposed to traditional individual and school-based group approaches.

This rigorous survey offers a comprehensive rethinking of the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders for a bold challenge to practitioners.

This book challenges the assumptions of modern criminal law that insanity is a natural, legally and medically defined phenomenon (covering a range of medical disorders).

This evidence-rich collection takes on the broad diversity of traumatic stress, in both its causes and outcomes, as well as the wide variety of resources available for recovery.