Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women
    Naomi Thompson / Rabia Nasimi
    Arguing for a bottom-up approach that centres on needs as well as assets, Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women highlights the importance of cultural relevance of services, and a holistic approach to integration that acknowledges the full range of needs and experiences migrant and refugee women face. ...
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    87,78 €

  • Handbook of Research on Present and Future Paradigms in Human Trafficking
    Essien D. Essien
    Human trafficking is currently regarded as a contemporary form of slavery. However, despite many initiatives undertaken over the last two decades to tackle the problem, there seems to be a disproportionate emphasis on the social phenomenon. Trafficking in persons remains a little-explored area in scholarship with many inconsistencies and ambiguities yet to be attended to. Human...
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    387,17 €

  • The Road to Better Long-Term Care in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shares insights on capacity building for long-term care in six countries at different stages of population aging: Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, and Viet Nam.It explores these countries’ long-term care systems and their particular circumstances and challenges. It also examines what they have in common and highlights good practices that may be helpf...
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    29,16 €

  • A Land Fit for Criminals
    David Fraser
    The British public today endure some of the world’s worst crime levels. According to the government’s own estimates, 132 million indictable crimes alone are committed every year, the vast majority of which go unrecorded and undetected. Burglary is rife; street crime burgeoning and violence is escalating to unprecedented levels. Fear of crime means that many of us - especially t...
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    20,79 €

  • Licence to Kill
    David Fraser
    Based on over thirty years of research of government sentencing policy and work within the criminal justice system, David Fraser demonstrates that Britain’s increased reliance on alternatives to imprisonment has allowed violent crime to flourish. The number of life-threatening attacks has increased rapidly over the last forty years but justice officials have masked this develop...
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    19,39 €

  • Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
    This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization, domestic violence and human rights. ...
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    167,81 €

  • Living Life to the Fullest
    Kirsty Liddiard / Sally Whitney-Mitchell
    Living Life to the Fullest forges new understandings of the lives, hopes, and desires of children and young people with ’life-limiting’ or ’life-threatening’ impairments. Aimed at undergraduate students, this book contributes to contemporary political and theoretical debates about the human in an age of global precarity and austerity. ...
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    87,74 €

  • Environmental Problem-Solving
    Bruno Verdini / Jessica Gordon / Lawrence Susskind
    ’Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. ...
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    56,31 €

  • Trauma-Responsive Organisations
    Daryl Mahon
    Mahon provides a ’how to’ approach to the systematic implementation of the Trauma Ecology Model for those working in both trauma specific, and non-specific organisations. He goes beyond the idea of trauma-informed care principles only, and incorporates trauma responsiveness at all levels, including leadership, supervision, and treatment. ...
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    87,69 €

  • Confronting School Violence
    Jillian J. Turanovic
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    23,99 €

  • LCSW Study Guide 2022-2023
    Newstone Social Work Team
    Imagine if test-takers could get all of the practice they need from one study guide and score very high on the Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam.This LCSW Study Guide combines theory and practice questions so that students are fully prepared before writing the exam. While other guides only provide around 200 questions, this guide has 680 questions along with answer explanati...
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    33,81 €

  • FROM OPIUM TO METHAMPHETAMINES
    WOLFGANG SACHSENRODER
    Southeast Asia is one of the biggest marketplaces for illicit drugs. The international syndicates with their billion-dollar profits are similar to the Hydra of the old Greek mythology which grew two new heads if one was cut off. Hercules eventually killed the monster with the help of his nephew who cauterised the fresh wounds before new heads could emerge. This story describes ...
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    93,45 €

  • Mental Me
    Justin Rollins
    Justin Rollins’ acclaimed The Lost Boyz followed his early life on the streets. Ten years on, this new book describes how he served time in adult prisons, triggering paranoia, fears, flashbacks and fixations. Mental Me tells how he overcame his locked-in thinking, dread of authority and nemesis ’Wayne Lister’ to become an expert on gangs and youth crime. It traces the ’ghosts’ ...
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    28,23 €

  • The Spectacle of Criminal Justice
    Rosie Smith
    Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the implementation of control and justice. ...
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    136,27 €

  • Gender, Criminalization, Imprisonment and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
    This volume contains two Open Access Chapters. This volume features contributions from activist scholars grappling to understand and alleviate the compound sufferings of women and LGBTIQA+ persons as they encounter criminal justice systems in Southeast Asia. ...
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    134,59 €

  • Criminological Research
    Jamie Harding
    A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas. ...
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    152,94 €

  • Criminological Research
    Jamie Harding
    A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas. ...
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    55,05 €

  • Five Categories of Collective Criminality
    Dubravka Polic
    What is collective criminality in international crimes? Do individuals play different roles in pursuit of collective criminality? How do these international crimes vary from domestic ones, and to what purpose are the courts and tribunals which follow in their wake? This book presents an empirical examination of jurisprudence to answer these questions, and demonstrates that ther...
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    76,12 €

  • The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology
    Over 23 chapters this Handbook reflects the diversity of methodological approaches employed in the emerging field of narrative criminology. ...
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    97,18 €

  • The Future of Policing
    Scott A. Cunningham / Scott A. Cunningham
    America is challenging everything about policing – its equipment, tactics, role, tasks, and even its very existence. This book guides those conversations by providing 200 specific recommendations that cover all aspects of policing, even the most controversial and important issues. ...
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    47,17 €

  • In Pursuit of Competence
    Norman Warner
    This is a memoir covering some 50 years’ involvement with delivering public services in a wide range of roles: civil servant; local government; chairing inquiries and public bodies; special adviser; Minister; and Parliamentarian. The book’s topic areas include the NHS, social services, social care, welfare benefits, human rights, criminal justice and constitutional issues like ...
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    20,51 €

  • Strengthening Disability-Inclusive Development
    Asian Development Bank
    This road map will guide the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in strengthening its approach to disability-inclusive development.The publication sets out a practical route to greater disability inclusion in ADB projects, research, and organizational systems, focusing first on short- and medium-term actions. Its aims include supporting the active participation and empowerment of peop...
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    30,83 €

  • Developing Knowledge and Skills for Child and Family Social Work
    Barry Fearnley
    Using case studies, activities and research summaries, this accessible guide to child and family social work will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice with confidence.  ...
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    38,27 €

  • Developing Knowledge and Skills for Child and Family Social Work
    Barry Fearnley
    Using case studies, activities and research summaries, this accessible guide to child and family social work will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice with confidence.  ...
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    116,46 €

  • The War on Drugs An Old Wives Tale
    Christine D Shuck
    Part memoir, part current affairs, part argument for legalization - The War on Drugs is a MUST READ for those who believe that the war on drugs only happens to 'those people' in 'that part of town.' Written from the point of view of a wife and mother, The War On Drugs: An Old Wives’ Tale examines the pros and cons of marijuana prohibition, drug diversion programs, and challenge...
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    23,98 €

  • Silence in the Face of Injustice
    Gary W. Hardy / Gary WHardy
    Sexual violence affects people of every age, gender, ethnicity, spiritual belief, and socio-economic class. Ninety percent of victims know their abuser. No one is immune from having a family member or friend fall prey to some form of sexual abuse. In some ways, these offenses are symptomatic of the ongoing fragmentation of families, the disintegration of communities, the declin...
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    18,51 €

  • Dirt Ordinary
    Jr. Rod Martin
    Did you know that there are at least 489 new conspiracies per second starting somewhere in the world, day-in and day-out, all year long, every year? This is a conservative estimate based on known facts. The actual figure could be far higher, because conspirators don’t usually like to be discovered.If anyone ever insinuates that conspiracies never happen or are too rare to be ta...
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    34,44 €

  • Mind Games
    Derek Williams / Dr. Deena Graves
    Derek Williams didn’t want to be a career pimp when he grew up. He dreamed of becoming an attorney. He did eventually stand in front of a judge but not as a lawyer. Abuse, neglect, and other trauma led him to the streets in search of a father figure. Instead, he found a three-bag-a-day heroin addiction.When he’d go with his friends to the prostitution track to rob sex buyers to...
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    40,41 €

  • Rethinking the Gulag
    Alan Barenberg
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social...
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    49,85 €

  • Rethinking the Gulag
    Alan Barenberg
    The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied institutions, and brought together inmates from all the Soviet Union’s ethnicities, professions, and social...
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    121,49 €


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