Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Judging Delinquents
    Robert M. Emerson
    Describes some critical aspects of the functioning of the juvenile court, an institution charged with judging and treating delinquents. This book analyzes the nature of the court operation, the handling of delinquents, and the court’s functions in relation to the wider social and legal system. It reflects two distinct sociological heritages. ...
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    240,71 €

  • The Politics of Evidence
    Justin Parkhurst
    This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regard to evidence. It draws on both policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand how the origins of such bias derive from the fundamental nature of policy contestation, as well as the nature of human cognition and information processing. ...
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    80,22 €

  • Managing Social Change and Social Policy in Greater China
    This book examines welfare regimes in the Greater China region, encompassing mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In so doing, it explores the ways in which the rapid growth and internationalisation of the economy across Greater China is presenting new social policy challenges that governments, social welfare organizations and agencies in the region are having to respon...
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    59,65 €

  • Collective Violence
    James F. Jr. Short / Marvin E. Wolfgang
    Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. This book addresses theory and research on violence as a group phenomenon. It is suitable for courses in sociology, anthropology and political science. ...
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    267,26 €

  • Homicide
    Margo Wilson / Martin Daly
    Martin Daly and Margo Wilson apply contemporary evolutionary theory to analysis of human motives and perceptions of self-interest, considering where and why individual interests conflict, using well-documented murder cases. This book attempts to understand normal social motives in murder as products of the process of evolution by natural selection. ...
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    267,59 €

  • What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation
    This ambitious volume brings together and assesses all major systematic reviews of the effectiveness of criminological interventions, to draw broad conclusions about what works in policing, corrections, developmental prevention, situational prevention, drug abuse treatments, sentencing and deterrence, and communities.Systematic reviews aim to minimize any possible bias in drawi...
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    148,76 €

  • The Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India
    Dhanmanjiri Sathe
    This book examines key issues concerning land acquisition, and puts forward policy suggestions. Land acquisition is one of the most important issues besetting India’s political economy today. There have been many conflicts surrounding acquisitions; but there have been ample peaceful acquisitions, too. Growth in any economy requires more land. Hence in India too, in the future ...
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    48,31 €

  • 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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    218,52 €

  • Foot Patrol
    Evan T. Sorg / Evan TSorg / Jerry H. Ratcliffe / Jerry HRatcliffe
    This Brief reviews the history of foot patrol and the recent, research-driven resurgence of foot patrol in places such as Philadelphia. It summarizes and critiques existing literature on the subject, examining the efficacy of foot patrol. At the time the Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment was published, popular opinion about foot patrol was that it might improve community per...
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    74,15 €

  • Police-Citizen Relations Across the World
    This book considers questions of police legitimacy in different regions of the world, explores the perception of legitimacy and examines how procedural justice is important for building legitimacy. ...
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    240,59 €

  • Complexity and Social Work
    Hans Van Ewijk
    Being socially competent is essential in late modern society. By placing social complexity, social vulnerability and social-efficacy within a framework of social policy and social practice, this book argues that growing social complexity excludes more and more citizens from social participation.   ...
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    66,75 €

  • Helping Survivors of Domestic Violence
    Judith S. Gordon
    First published in 1998, this study investigates the effectiveness of services for helping women who are survivors of domestic violence. Looking at a sample from Western and Central Oregon, it examines the utilization and perceived effectiveness of resources for survivors and, in doing so, it systematically assesses the efficacy of community and professional services.This book ...
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    66,83 €

  • Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work
    This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. It is argued that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work. ...
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    267,94 €

  • Handbook of Positive Psychology in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    This handbook examines the wide-ranging applications of positive psychology in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It discusses the change in perceptions of disability and the shifting use of traditional deficit-based treatments. It presents evidence-based approaches and strategies that promote individuals’ strengths and capacities and as well as provide s...
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    568,47 €

  • Narrative Medicine and Community-Based Health Care and Planning
    Berkeley A. Franz / Berkeley AFranz / John W Murphy / Jung Min Choi
    This progressive resource brings the innovative power of narrative medicine to the forefront of community public health care. Chapters describe community involvement across a continuum of control, from health consultants describing problems and suggesting solutions to health committees designing programs and evaluating results. Narrative strategies to this end, including authen...
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    120,95 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    57,96 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Self-Tracking, Health and Medicine
    Deborah Lupton
    This book explores a number of different self-tracking techniques, emphasising the self-responsibility on which self-tracking relies, the educational value that it provides, and the way in which it can establish healthier social norms. It was originally published as a special issue of the Health Sociology Review. ...
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    241,57 €


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