Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Informal Services in Asian Cities
    This book explores urban informality in Asian cities and looks how the informal sector’s contribution to inclusive and sustainable growth can be enhanced.While supporting the livelihoods of most of the developing world’s urban poor, the informal sector also deprives them of basic services and social protection. Rendered vulnerable to socioeconomic threats, people in the urban i...
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    55,72 €

  • Advanced Social Work Practice
    Glen Hong
    Glen Hong is the Department Chair of the Social Work Department at Whittier and is Co-owner of 12 Week Relationships. Dr. Hong has over 20 years of clinical experience both as a Clinical Psychologist and Social Worker, and does extensive research on relationships, trauma and core values through the TWR Institute which he also co-founded. ...
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    127,72 €

  • Gendered Justice?
    Jo Roberts
    Built upon the foundations of women’s real-life experiences, which have real-world implications, Gendered Justice? introduces a range of recommendations and implications for both policy and practice in the field of criminal justice. ...
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    136,25 €

  • Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland
    This volume contains an Open Access Chapter Leading scholars on Irish penal history and theory explore trends and debates that have surrounded patterns of punishment in Ireland since the formation of the State and foreground often absent perspectives in criminology and punishment. ...
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    136,90 €

  • Criminal Man, According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso
    Cesare Lombroso / Gina Lombroso Ferrero
    Written while Lombroso was professor of forensic medicine at the University of Turin, L’Uomo delinquente (Criminal Man) set out to conduct an anthropological study of its subject. The premise was that the criminal is born and could be identified from congenital traits. By learning to recognise them, and by developing a detailed system of classification, the aim was better to un...
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    49,02 €

  • Women’s Resilience in Fiji
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how Fiji’s laws and policies could help tackle gender inequalities in relation to climate change and disaster risk management.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. Addressing this imbalance requires the integratio...
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    29,26 €

  • The power of citizens and professionals in welfare encounters
    Nanna Mik-Meyer
    This book shows the workings of power in the micro dynamics of welfare encounters. By staying close to real world welfare encounters, the book contributes to the broad scholarly field of welfare studies that either takes a Foucauldian perspective on governance, Weberian approach to the bureaucracy or contributes to the sociology of professions. ...
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    36,06 €

  • Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women’s Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores good practices in the use of financial instruments to enhance women’s economic resilience to disasters caused by natural hazard events and extreme weather conditions. Gender inequalities and limited access to resources constrain women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks and economic distress arising from disasters. The publication ...
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    27,94 €

  • Addiction Recovery and Resilience
    Townsand Price-Spratlen
    Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood. ...
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    41,96 €

  • The ISSA Manuscript
    Scott A Ginn
    As a major Entitlement program, Social Security has been neglected to the brink of insolvency. The ISSA Manuscript is a Public Policy Statement regarding the funding and actuarial status of future Social Security Trust Funds. It is a ’financial blueprint’ how Privatized Social Security Accounts could work in the United States; who could benefit from them, and why they are neede...
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    4,21 €

  • How Robots Impact
    John Lok
    This book brings readers to enter future artificial intelligent technological job market environment.  My readers will face future different (AI) job situation to feel how they will need time and emotion and nervous to adopt future different situation (AI) job environment change to let you to feel. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology is for the progress in criti...
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    11,92 €

  • Creating the Boston Police
    Timothy B. Riordan
    The Boston Police Department was formed by a man who had twice failed in business, ran a bar in the poorest district of Boston, and was charged with two assaults. When Francis Tukey became City Marshal in 1846, he faced off against some of the most notorious criminals of the time. Under Tukey’s leadership, the police were known for their coordinated 'descents' on gamblers, r...
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    42,76 €

  • Pass the LMSW Exam
    Jeremy Schwartz
    Every year, thousands of social workers graduate from accredited schools of social work in the United States and Canada and pursue licensure through their state or provincial boards of social work as a LMSW, LGSW, APSW, or CSW. This level of licensure, as determined by the state board, requires a passing score on the ASWB® Master’s Level social work examination. Unfortunately,...
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    32,10 €

  • Motherhood In and After Prison
    Lucy Baldwin
    Motherhood In and After Prison focuses on how imprisonment impacts incarcerated mothers’ maternal identity, emotions and role. It explores both the short and longer-term consequences of sending mothers to prison. It reveals the devastating and often underestimated impact of maternal imprisonment on mothers themselves, on their children, and on their families and their place in ...
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    50,53 €

  • Testing Criminal Career Theories in British and American Longitudinal Studies
    David P. Farrington / John F. MacLeod
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    23,82 €

  • Cases on Crimes, Investigations, and Media Coverage
    Liam James Leonard
    Media has a great influence on the perceptions and opinions of the public throughout varying areas, particularly for crimes, investigations, and trials. People receive information about these key events through some form of media, and the way the facts are represented is crucial to what people will believe. To fully understand the sway media has on public opinion, further study...
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    281,81 €

  • Cases on Crimes, Investigations, and Media Coverage
    Liam James Leonard
    Media has a great influence on the perceptions and opinions of the public throughout varying areas, particularly for crimes, investigations, and trials. People receive information about these key events through some form of media, and the way the facts are represented is crucial to what people will believe. To fully understand the sway media has on public opinion, further study...
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    215,96 €

  • Charity in Saudi Arabia
    Nora Derbal
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    144,51 €

  • Regulating Human Rights, Social Security, and Socio-Economic Structures in a Global Perspective
    The social security of a person in the modern world can only be ensured by a purposeful policy and actions of the state and society aimed at achieving it. This requires favorable socio-economic conditions and creating an effective personal security system protecting property and citizens. Human social security can be threatened by phenomena and processes that lead to drastic ch...
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    282,05 €

  • Regulating Human Rights, Social Security, and Socio-Economic Structures in a Global Perspective
    The social security of a person in the modern world can only be ensured by a purposeful policy and actions of the state and society aimed at achieving it. This requires favorable socio-economic conditions and creating an effective personal security system protecting property and citizens. Human social security can be threatened by phenomena and processes that lead to drastic ch...
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    216,20 €

  • Night on Earth
    Davide Rodogno
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    119,36 €

  • Privilege and Punishment
    Matthew Clair
    How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court-and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privile...
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    27,74 €

  • Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse
    Nicola Sharp-Jeffs
    Despite being recognised by victim-survivors as a tactic used by abusers, economic abuse has received little attention in research, policy, or practice. This powerful book provides a crucial validation of the lived experience of victim-survivors, and highlights the urgent need to develop effective responses to economic abuse. ...
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    61,19 €

  • No Bad Days . . . I Can Eat This Pizza
    Matthew A. Eldridge
    The title reflects two statements of my clients molded into a title, concluding with an offer to join me on my journey of social work. This book is based on real life. Nothing is fictional; nothing is hyped or tamed down. This book shares the joys and sorrows of social work and geriatrics. This book tells how the now deceased coach, professor, and social worker / coworker has a...
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    14,39 €

  • Women’s Resilience in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited opportunities to participate in decision-making processes. This repor...
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    29,26 €

  • Women’s Resilience in Mongolia
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women’s resilience to climate change and disasters.The report presents findings of a gender analysis of national legal and policy frameworks of Mongolia and discusses whether laws, policies, and strategies consider gender inequalities as they relate to climate and di...
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    29,16 €

  • Legal Executions by the United States Military
    R. Michael Wilson
    During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life in prison or death for crimes of murder, rape or desertion. Only 160 men were sentenced to death and executed--159 for murder or ra...
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    137,69 €

  • Making Sense of Ultra-Realism
    Anthony Lloyd / Justin Kotzé
    Making Sense of Ultra-Realism offers a unique insight into one of the most significant theoretical advances in 21st century criminology, drawing upon popular films and television series to contextualise and clarify the ultra-realist school of thought and providing a theoretically rich yet accessible introduction to the topic. ...
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    87,91 €

  • Comparative Criminology Across Western and African Perspectives
    Crime prevention is essential to the success of any civilization. Effective criminal justice systems contribute greatly to the prevention of crime. However, clashing traditional and modern theories regarding appropriate action within criminal justice organizations can cause these systems to fail even when personnel is beyond reproach. Successfully blending traditional and moder...
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    327,78 €

  • World Change-Maker
    Ann McLaughlin
    After directing the organization NGOabroad: International Careers and Volunteering for 20 years, the author wrote this guidebook to help both prospective and active social and humanitarian workers pursue their careers in international development. She has witnessed many individuals miss international job opportunities because they lack knowledge of the realities on the groun...
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    28,13 €


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