Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

6014 Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Green Crimes and International Criminal Law
    ’Green Crimes and International Criminal Law’ examines crimes against the environment, which impact not only humans, but also wildlife and ecosystems more generally. A significant point of discussion in the volume is whether green crimes can fit effectively into existing international criminal law frameworks or not. Chapter authors explore these crimes from both a definitional ...
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    77,01 €

  • Crimes of States and Powerful Elites
    Simon Prideaux
    A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution. ...
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    180,26 €

  • THEORE ANAL, PERFORM EVALUA & REFORM SOL HEALTH CARE SYS
    Hong Sheng / Lin Zhang / LIN ZHANG & PU QIAN HONG SHENG / Pu Qian
    Medical expenditure has become a heavy burden on the public sector and the family system in many countries. Expanding the coverage and reimbursement of medical insurance has become a common way to reduce the burden. This book will elaborate on how medical insurance may increase the burden instead.It explains why the existing medical insurance system results in increased medical...
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    154,23 €

  • YANKEE DAWN
    Michael Cumiskey
    Would it be so easy to successfully challenge our democracy and alter our value system?Imagine a wealthy American determined in his belief and practice of the cult of Scientology, landing in Great Britain with the intention of pursuing a wholesale conversion of the country to a very different economic and belief system...In this instance, two serious criminal events presage Sta...
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    13,20 €

  • YANKEE DAWN
    Michael Cumiskey
    Would it be so easy to successfully challenge our democracy and alter our value system?Imagine a wealthy American determined in his belief and practice of the cult of Scientology, landing in Great Britain with the intention of pursuing a wholesale conversion of the country to a very different economic and belief system...In this instance, two serious criminal events presage Sta...
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    19,68 €

  • Poverty, Vulnerability, and Fiscal Sustainability in the People’s Republic of China
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores the new poverty reduction strategy of the People’s Republic of China and focuses on the vulnerable, particularly children, the elderly, and those whose access to health care is jeopardized by urbanization and aging.The People’s Republic of China has a long and successful record of poverty reduction. As incomes rise, the country’s new poverty reduction strat...
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    37,32 €

  • Global Perspectives on Reforming the Criminal Justice System
    Michael Pittaro
    The often-tenuous relationship between law enforcement and communities of color, namely African Americans, has grown increasingly strained, and the call for justice has once again ignited the demand for criminal justice reform. Rebuilding the trust between the police and the citizens that they have sworn to protect and serve requires that criminal justice practitioners and educ...
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    282,25 €

  • Good Trouble
    Brian Wolf
    This book argues that some of the most important deviants have been at the forefront of positive social change and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. ...
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    54,54 €

  • Current Issues in Corrections
    Christopher Utecht
    Current Issues in Corrections explores a variety of the most timely and salient challenges facing the correctional system. The text is comprised of chapters written by experts in the field who have experience as both academic and criminal justice practitioners. The book begins with an exploration of issues in private corrections and then moves forward to discuss the history of ...
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    123,79 €

  • Historical Mysteries
    Andrew Lang
    First published in 1904, this volume contains a collection of 12 essays written by Scottish author Andrew Lang dealing with various baffling historical mysteries, including the famous Gowrie conspiracy and much-investigated case of Elizabeth Canning. A fantastic collection of detailed examinations concerning some the world’s most unsolvable secrets not to be missed by mystery l...
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    23,32 €

  • Danger! - A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations
    Abraham H. Hummel / Abraham HHummel / William F. Howe / William FHowe
    “Danger! - A True History of a Great City’s Wiles and Temptations” is an 1886 work by American lawyer William Frederick Howe. Howe worked for the Howe and Hummel New York City law firm, which became widely celebrated during the second half of nineteenth century for its cases related to world of crime and corruption. This volume goes into detail describing some of the firm’s mor...
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    25,52 €

  • Security and Crime
    Alison Wakefield
    International in scope, Security and Crime is an authoritative and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between security and crime, addressing much of the confusion about its nature and meaning, clarifying its relevance to criminological analysis, and giving due attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic. ...
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    166,95 €

  • Security and Crime
    Alison Wakefield
    International in scope, Security and Crime is an authoritative and multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between security and crime, addressing much of the confusion about its nature and meaning, clarifying its relevance to criminological analysis, and giving due attention to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic. ...
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    51,88 €

  • Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice
    Victims of crime may experience a wide variety of traumas that result in physical, sexual, financial, psychological, emotional, and/or social consequences. While the types of trauma can vary greatly and include lesser-known forms such as vicarious and secondary trauma, identifying and recognizing victims can be complicated. Throughout this book, experts and professionals from a...
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    282,59 €

  • Killing Justice in the Lone Star State
    Michael O’Brien
    Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones). The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice. It also explains the much criticised Texas ’law of parties.’Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution of death sentenced pris...
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    35,97 €

  • Invisible Victims and the Pursuit of Justice
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    216,74 €

  • FEDERAL SOLUTIONS FOR FRAGILE STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    Liam Anderson / LIAM ANDERSON & VAUGHN SHANNON / Vaughn Shannon
    In most regions of the world, federalism (territorial autonomy) is used as a successful institutional means of dispersing political power and accommodating ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity. The Middle East is an exception. Aside from the anomalous case of the U.A.E and Iraq’s troubled experiment with federalism, Middle Eastern regimes have largely resisted efforts to d...
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    166,76 €

  • Public Relations for Social Responsibility
    Donnalyn Pompper
    This inaugural edited collection for the Communicating Responsible Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series explores the active promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a public relations responsibility and provides new avenues for critiquing the ways in which power operates through public relations work and theory building. ...
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    142,80 €

  • Bridging the Divide
    Personal Account of the International Association of Social Work with Groups (IASWG) Symposium, Kruger National Park, South Africa Paul JohnsonBuild the Social Justice Bridge: Participatory photography with the international group work community Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella and Reineth PrinslooDefying the labels: The empowering role of group work in a poverty alleviation project ...
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    50,90 €

  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
    In a decade that has seen the rise of far-right extremism, Western countries still face myriad threats of mass violence, including terrorism. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of 'lone-wolf terrorism,' whereby acts of political violence are committed by individuals who are operating independently of any organized terrorist group, something which makes them inherently more...
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    282,32 €

  • Self-Direction
    Kevin J. Mahoney / Kevin JMahoney / Marc H. Fenton / Marc HFenton / Valerie J. Bradley / Valerie JBradley
    Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future. ...
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    42,06 €

  • The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam
    William Gawthrop Ph.D.
    The purpose of this text is to provide a handbook of Islam tailored to the needs of the Criminal Investigator and Intelligence Analyst. It draws from the doctrinal sources of Islamic Law, Sunni Tradition, that are overlooked by criminology and counterterrorism references. • The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah • The Quran • Hadith of Bukhari• Hana...
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    29,98 €

  • The Criminal Investigator-Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam
    William Gawthrop Ph.D.
    The purpose of this text is to provide a handbook of Islam tailored to the needs of the Criminal Investigator and Intelligence Analyst. It draws from the doctrinal sources of Islamic Law, Sunni Tradition, that are overlooked by criminology and counterterrorism references. • The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ishaq’s Sirat Rasul Allah • The Quran • Hadith of Bukhari• Hana...
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    23,04 €

  • Handbook of Research on Policies, Protocols, and Practices for Social Work in the Digital World
    Fahri Özsungur
    Social work plays an important role in reintegrating individuals into society, educating, raising awareness, implementing social policy, and realizing legal regulations. The emergence of digital innovations and the effects of health problems including the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals and society have led to the development of innovations, virtual/digital practices, and appl...
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    355,15 €

  • Mass Mediated Representations of Crime and Criminality
    Julie B. Wiest
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume features social science research that examines the practices, patterns and messages related to representations of crime in mass media around the world. ...
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    167,90 €

  • Crossroads of Rural Crime
    Using the notion of ’crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide. ...
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    136,07 €

  • Mitigating Mass Violence and Managing Threats in Contemporary Society
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    216,47 €

  • Black resistance to British policing
    Adam Elliott-Cooper
    Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century Britain. ...
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    53,01 €

  • Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners
    Christina Valeska Straub
    While the importance of love is rarely questioned, the effects of its presence and absence in certain environments often goes unnoticed. This book analyses the role of love in the lives of prisoners in a low security English prison. It seeks to provide a deeper insight into the meaning and role of love as a dual concept in the social-ecology of human existence, human developmen...
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    70,25 €

  • Ten Days in a Mad-House;Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors
    Nellie Bly
    Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in the late 1800s to shed light on the horrific conditions of Victorian mental asylums. This is the eye-opening account of her experience. Nellie Bly feigned insanity to be admitted to a mental institution with the intent of exposing its awful conditions first-hand. Her account reveals the institution’s inhumane treatment, abuse ...
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    19,05 €


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