Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Handbook of Rural School Mental Health
    This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of school mental health (SMH) initiatives in rural areas in the United States. It offers clinical and administrative guidelines for innovative and effective programs addressing critical problems among rural youth and in areas where funding and resources are scarce. Chapters cover program development, implementation, sustainability, ...
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    286,50 €

  • Making Sense of Moral Panics
    Sarah Wright Monod
    This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of moral panics. It provides an up-to-date overview of the history and development of the concept of panic, and discusses the key criticisms and debates that have stemmed from its use over the last four decades. While investigating the critical connections between crime reporting and panic development, Wright Monod also h...
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    48,34 €

  • Punishment and Crime
    Brion Sever / Gary Kleck
    This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects o...
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    131,81 €

  • Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts
    Joan McCord
    Facts, Frameworks, and Forecasts calls for rethinking the development of criminological theory. Examining the discipline’s research design, methodology, and quantitative analysis efforts, the contributors identify significant advances in criminological theory. ...
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    240,50 €

  • Housing Vouchers
    E. Jay Howenstine
    Outside the United States, the idea of a consumer housing subsidy is a highly developed concept ...
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    241,16 €

  • Cutting the Edge
    Jeffrey Ian Ross
    Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today’s academic, applied research, and policy sectors ...
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    241,10 €

  • Security Privatization
    This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions. While PMSCs provide security for profit, most other private sector stakeholders make a profit by selling goods and services that were not orig...
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    47,73 €

  • Routledge Handbook on Deviance
    The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance, with a focus on new, emerging, and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance, with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport, leisure, substance use, religion and cults, politically marginalize...
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    394,13 €

  • A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims
    Dirk Enzmann / Ineke Haen Marshall / Janne Kivivuori
    This Brief presents the first major release of findings from the Third International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3). ISRD is a major international research collaboration that now covers some 35 countries. It surveys young people aged 12 to 16 in their schools, asking about their experience of crime - both as offenders and as victims - and about their attitudes to crime a...
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    74,15 €

  • Anti-Racist Social Work
    Lena Dominelli
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    50,82 €

  • Does Collective Impact Work?
    Frank Ridzi / Margaret Doughty
    The way American communities address the issue of low literacy has changed with the development of literacy coalitions. The authors examine in detail how this happened and explore potential emerging best practices for the collective impact approach to community change. ...
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    142,66 €

  • Service User and Carer Involvement in Health and Social Care
    Barbara Fawcett / Dawn River / Joy Fillingham
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    55,34 €

  • Diversion in Youth Justice
    Roger Smith
    This book examines the emergence and development of youth diversion within the justice system, discusses its models of practice and offers some theoretical conclusions about its relationship with sociological and criminological trends. ...
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    241,29 €

  • Caribbean Crime and Criminal Justice
    This book contributes to the development of Caribbean Criminology, offers an overview of existing scientific empirical and theoretical work on crime and criminal justice in the Caribbean and explores the impact of post-colonialism. ...
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    240,44 €

  • Crime, Genes, Neuroscience and Cyberspace
    Tim Owen
    This book applies Owen’s unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime. Moving beyond challenges which confront contemporary criminological theorizing such as: the stagnation of critical criminology, the relativistic nihilism of the ’cultural turn’, posthumanism, and virtual criminology, the author codifies and ’app...
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    144,74 €

  • Environmental Crime in Latin America
    This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters collected here illuminate and describe the 'theft of nature' and the 'poisoning of the land' in Latin America through ...
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    193,54 €

  • Social Theory for Social Work
    Christopher Thorpe
    Trying to understand how the world looks through the eyes of individuals and groups and how it shapes the ways they think and act is something social workers do all the time. It is what social theorists do too. This book identifies and explains in a highly accessible manner the absolute value of social theory for social work. Drawing on the theoretical ideas and perspectives of...
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    69,84 €

  • Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency
    In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency , Terence P. Thornberry and his contributors show that criminal behavior is not a static human attribute, but ebbs and flows over the life course of the individual. ...
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    267,46 €

  • The Social Reality of Crime
    Richard Quinney / Wilhelm Roepke
    Richard Quinney’s The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice ...
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    267,49 €

  • Internet Sex Work
    Jane Scoular / Rosie Campbell / Teela Sanders
    This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry. The authors use extensive new datasets to explore the working practices, safety and regulation of the sex industry, for female, male and trans sex workers primarily working in the UK. Insights are given as to how sex workers use the internet in their everyday working...
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    77,37 €

  • Police Brutality, Misconduct, and Corruption
    James F. Albrecht / James FAlbrecht
    This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct.  Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.According to an examination of 50 years of police misconduct cases within the New York Police Department (NYPD) and Los Angeles Police Depart...
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    78,85 €

  • NGO Politics in Sri Lanka
    Indi Ruwangi Akurugoda
    This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development. Based on research in the southern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka, this project analyses the views of national, p...
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    71,18 €

  • New Perspectives on Cybercrime
    Faye Christabel Speed / Tim Owen / Wayne Noble
    This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as ...
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    193,78 €

  • Social Work and Integrated Health Care
    With nearly 40% of social workers working in the health and behavioral health care sectors, Social Work and Integrated Health Care is designed to help social workers understand the policies that shape the current discussion regarding integrated primary care and behavioral health care and their application to practice. While the future of Patient Protection and Affordable Care A...
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    78,90 €

  • On Clinical Social Work
    Danna R. Bodenheimer / Danna RBodenheimer
    Through words and images, Dr. Danna Bodenheimer brings to life a wide range of realities for clinical social workers. Consider her a master teacher, supportive mentor, or caring friend--this volume of “meditations and truths” is her gift to you and to the social work profession she loves.In her own gentle voice and conversational style, On Clinical Social Work is a collection o...
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    31,51 €

  • Technocrime and Criminological Theory
    Cybercrime, computer crime, Internet crime, and technosecurity have been of increasing concern to citizens, corporations, and governments since their emergence in the 1980s. Addressing both the conventional and radical theories underlying this emerging criminological trend, including feminist theory, social learning theory, and postmodernism, this text paves the way for those w...
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    134,45 €

  • The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice
    Aaron Cicourel
    The Social Organization of Juvenile Justice recasts familiar sociological problems of research within a dramatically new and different theoretical and methodological perspective ...
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    240,38 €

  • Punishment and Social Structure
    Otto Kirchheimer
    Why are certain methods of punishment adopted or rejected in a given social situation? To what extent is the development of penal methods determined by basic social relations? The answers to these questions are complex, and go well beyond the thesis that institutionalized punishment is simply for the protection of society ...
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    267,69 €

  • Youth, Crime, and Justice
    Carolyn Boyes-Watson / Erika Gebo
    This is a comprehensive introduction to youth, crime, and justice through a unique case-study approach. Taking a life course perspective, the book examines the changing landscapes of childhood and the justice system, with an intersectional focus. ...
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    95,82 €

  • Youth, Crime, and Justice
    Carolyn Boyes-Watson / Erika Gebo
    This is a comprehensive introduction to youth, crime, and justice through a unique case-study approach. Taking a life course perspective, the book examines the changing landscapes of childhood and the justice system, with an intersectional focus. ...
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    175,20 €


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