Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Mercy’s Heroes
    Tom Crowley
    In Mercy’s Heroes, a Vietnam veteran battling with PTSD turns from the business world to life as a volunteer, helping to rescue and protect street kids in Bangkok’s biggest slum.Here Tom Crowley details the children’s efforts to survive abuse and the struggle for dignity waged by the poorest of families. Interwoven throughout, the author’s combat experiences and pain highlight ...
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    29,81 €

  • ASEAN-CHINA COOPERATION FOR POVERTY REDUCTION
    YANJUN GUO & YUE YANG
    The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been one of the world’s most dynamic and fastest-growing regions over the years. Its average combined GDP growth rate is more than 6% and the total combined GDP was valued at US$3.0 trillion in 2018. ASEAN countries have managed to significantly reduce their national poverty over the last few decades. Although a correlation...
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    105,99 €

  • Buying and Selling the Poor
    Mark Considine / Michael McGann / Siobhan O’Sullivan
    Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly unde...
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    23,64 €

  • Retreat or Entrenchment?
    Henrik Tham
    The drug policies of the Nordic countries have been relatively strict. Since this seems to contradict the internationally recognized liberal criminal policy in general, analyses have been devoted to try to understand this gap. Why doesn’t the 'Scandinavian exceptionalism' apply to the drug policies? The new question in relation to drug policy is, however, if and how the Nordic ...
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    26,50 €

  • Victims’ Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse
    Emma Forbes
    Victims’ Experiences of The Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls provides a unique perspective on how victims of domestic abuse experience the justice process. ...
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    61,16 €

  • Organisations and Management in Social Work
    Mark Hughes / Michael Wearing
    As a social worker, you could work in a variety of different organisation, so understanding and examining the complex issues involved in the management and organisational context of social work practice is crucial for practitioners and managers. This book helps you to develop strategies for ethical, reflective and relational practice, covers key themes including leadership, sup...
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    185,40 €

  • An Introduction to Criminology
    A comprehensive introduction to all the key topics, criminological theories, and important themes that students will cover when studying criminology and criminal justice. ...
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    106,62 €

  • Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
    Ana Cristina Pego
    The smart city is a driver of change, innovation, competitiveness, and networking for businesses and organizations based on the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals for the 2030 agenda. The importance of a new paradigm regarding the externalities of the environment, citizen welfare, and natural resources in cities as an impact of urban ecosystems is the main objective f...
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    282,32 €

  • ’And a seed was planted...’ Occupation based approaches for social inclusion
    Occupational therapy originated in social reform, and then became allied with medicine and a biomedical. This work shows how the profession has recognised the value of the work of its pioneers, and now argues for principles such as occupational justice and the right to health-promoting occupations, social inclusion,  and involvement in the community. ...
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    49,49 €

  • Organisations and Management in Social Work
    Mark Hughes / Michael Wearing
    As a social worker, you could work in a variety of different organisation, so understanding and examining the complex issues involved in the management and organisational context of social work practice is crucial for practitioners and managers. This book helps you to develop strategies for ethical, reflective and relational practice, covers key themes including leadership, sup...
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    63,14 €

  • Place, Race and Politics
    Jarrett Blaustein / Leanne Weber
    Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the social and political processes that combined to construct a media-driven ’crisis’ concerning African youth crime in the city of Melbourne, Australia. ...
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    136,30 €

  • Country Diagnostic Study on Long-Term Care in Indonesia
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Indonesia. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.Contributing to the development of an in-depth knowledge base on LTC, the publication explores the need for and supply of care, regulatory and policy framewo...
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    35,67 €

  • Whose ’Eyes on the Street’ Control Crime?
    John E. Eck / John EEck / Shannon J. Linning / Shannon JLinning
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    23,82 €

  • Ganja Man
    Ron McDonough
    A true story of a Jamaican drug trafficker and ex-convict in the early 1970’s, based on the author’s two years of research in a coastal area of the island as a young anthropologist. The book is devoted to an odyssey with 'Storm,' an armed 'Rastaman' and 'obeahman' (sorcerer), from his time as a fugitive and destitute ganja planter in the Crown land mountains to his ultimate suc...
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    32,60 €

  • The Incel Rebellion
    Lisa Sugiura
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews,this book provides an insight into the development of the manosphere, and the extent to which the influence and philosophy of incel is penetrating mainstream culture. ...
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    46,29 €

  • Country Diagnostic Study on Long-Term Care in Tonga
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents a study on the availability and provision of long-term care (LTC) in Tonga. It discusses findings from the analysis and offers recommendations for the development of LTC systems in the country.The publication explores the need for and supply of care, regulatory and policy frameworks, service provision, quality management, human resources, and financing...
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    34,03 €

  • Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London
    Alex Simpson
    Delving into the spatial disconnection that separates the City from the rest of London and the UK, this ground-breaking book gives shape and form to how financial markets are sustained, managed and performed within the shared cultural imagination and system of knowledge. ...
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    136,30 €

  • Smart Cities, Citizen Welfare, and the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals
    Ana Cristina Pego
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    216,47 €

  • Pandemic Preparedness and Response Strategies
    Asian Development Bank
    Drawing on case studies from the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam, this publication highlights successful strategies, mechanisms, and innovations in early coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response in Asia and the Pacific.Across the region, diverse approaches are being taken to mitigate COVID-19. The case studies presented here focus on analyzing pandemic-related...
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    29,42 €

  • In Search of New Social Democracy
    Olle Törnquist
    Why is the classical social democratic vision of development based on social justice by democratic means losing ground? Why was it so difficult to renew, even in the context of the third wave of democracy in the South? How does this matter in the North too, and how might it be reinvented? This accessible book brings to life major insights gained through written sources and inte...
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    140,67 €

  • The Mental Health Tribunal
    Christine Hutchison / Neil Hickman
    This accessible and practical guide demystifies the Mental Health Tribunal (England) and Mental Health Review Tribunal For Wales (MHRTW) for health and social care professionals.  ...
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    54,53 €

  • The Mental Health Tribunal
    Christine Hutchison / Neil Hickman
    This accessible and practical guide demystifies the Mental Health Tribunal (England) and Mental Health Review Tribunal For Wales (MHRTW) for health and social care professionals.  ...
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    167,29 €

  • Safeguarding Children, Young People and Families
    Julie Fourie / Vida Douglas
    Using case studies, reflective questions and checklists for practice, this hands-on guide will provide busy social workers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and confidently make a difference to the lives of children and young people. ...
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    53,29 €

  • Safeguarding Children, Young People and Families
    Julie Fourie / Vida Douglas
    Using case studies, reflective questions and checklists for practice, this hands-on guide will provide busy social workers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and confidently make a difference to the lives of children and young people. ...
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    161,45 €

  • Women Who Love Men Who Kill
    Sheila Isenberg
    30 years after she first asked the question, 'Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?,' Sheila Isenberg answers it anew in the age of the internet, smart phones, social media, mass shootings, celebrity worship of murderers, and modern prison datingAt once disturbing and fascinating, Women Who Love Men Who Kill is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in...
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    15,59 €

  • THE DEVIL AND DR. FAUCI
    James P Driscoll
    The Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the 'Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex,' or DTLM. Quietly dominating America’s healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s, Driscoll evi...
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    39,32 €

  • THE DEVIL AND DR. FAUCI
    James P Driscoll
    The Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the 'Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex,' or DTLM. Quietly dominating America’s healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s, Driscoll evi...
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    28,45 €

  • Faces of Terrorism and The Ultimate Solution, by
    Prit Paul Singh Bambah
    The book, 'Faces of Terrorism and The Ultimate Solution', takes the reader’s mind away from the barriers of caste and creed, towards a soothing inclination to think about a peaceful human society. The author P. P. S. Bambah has projected many different types of worldwide terrorism activities with plenty of examples from history, religions and diverse world communities. His wide...
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    20,21 €

  • Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town
    Dariusz Dziewanski
    Joint Winner of the 2023 ASSAf Humanities Book Award in the Emerging Researcher Category This book showcases a practical starting point for changing how criminologists think about gangs and street culture - offering hope to those trying to exit gang life, as well as those trying to help them do so. ...
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    142,99 €

  • The Art of Punishment
    Graeme Newman
    In this first volume, Graeme Newman presents a kaleidoscope of punishment through the lens of artists, some famous, most unknown, who have captured the essence of punishment in the early history of the Western world and its contrasting modern representation in everyday life. These 102 images are not pictures to be gawked at (though readers will do so), they challenge us, (thoug...
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    48,68 €


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