Catálogo de libros: Servicios sociales y bienestar, criminología

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  • Gender and Social Security Reform
    Neil Gilbert
    Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas ...
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    240,96 €

  • Skinhead History, Identity, and Culture
    Kevin Borgeson / Robin Maria Valeri / Robin Valeri
    Skinhead History, Identity, and Culture covers the history, identity, and culture of the skinhead movement in Europe and America, looking at the total culture of the skins through a cross- sectional analysis of skinheads in various countries. Most of the research comes from data gathered by the proposed authors. The book covers the history of the subculture; explores the unique...
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    254,91 €

  • Preparing for Earthquakes
    Sreevalsa Kolathayar / T. G. Sitharam / TGSitharam
    The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake. The work presented here sheds new light on the action plans to be taken by the common public and public agencies, before, during and after earthquakes to ...
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    67,93 €

  • Re-Examining The Crime Drop
    Stephen Farrall
    The crime drop is one of the most important puzzles in contemporary criminology: since the early-1990s many countries appear to exhibit a pronounced decline in crime rates. While there have been many studies on the topic, this book argues that the current crime drop literature relies too heavily on a single methodological approach, and in turn, provides a new method for examini...
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    71,51 €

  • Wirtschaftskriminalität und Glücksspielmonopol
    Werner Jarec
    Werner Jarec untersucht, inwieweit das in Österreich derzeit bestehende Glücksspielmonopol dem Ziel der Bekämpfung der Wirtschaftskriminalität dient, ob dieses Ziel die Errichtung eines Monopoles rechtfertigen kann und welche verfassungs- und unionsrechtlichen Grenzen einzuhalten sind. Der Autor erläutert, inwieweit das Ziel nicht auch auf anderem Weg, etwa über das Steuerrecht...
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    60,65 €

  • Environmental Criminology
    Liam Leonard
    Using sociological, criminological, anthropological, historical and media analysis, this multi-disciplinary volume examines local and regional issues in environmental criminology. ...
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    194,37 €

  • The Evolution of UN Sanctions
    Enrico Carisch / Loraine Rickard-Martin / Shawna R. Meister / Shawna RMeister
    Marking the 50th anniversary of UN sanctions, this work examines the evolution of sanctions from a primary instrument of economic warfare to a tool of prevention and protection against global conflicts and human rights abuses. The rise of sanctions as a versatile and frequently used tool to confront the challenges of armed conflicts, terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of m...
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    270,97 €

  • Practitioner’s Guide to Ethics and Mindfulness-Based Interventions
    This book focuses on the role of ethics in the application of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) in clinical practice. The book offers an overview of the role of ethics in the cultivation of mindfulness and explores the way in which ethics have been embedded in the curriculum of MBIs and MBPs. Chapters review current training processes ...
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    246,06 €

  • Erwachsene Amoktäter
    Anna-Lena Braun
    Das kriminologisch angelegte Thema behandelt das aktuelle und selten empirisch untersuchte Phänomen sogenannter Amoktaten - Mehrfachtötungen aus unklarer Motivlage, die vornehmlich im öffentlichen Raum begangen werden. Die Autorin liefert einen umfangreichen Überblick über bisherige Erkenntnisse zu verschiedenen Tötungsphänomenen. Dabei wird der Aspekt der Rekonstruktion der Tä...
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    155,71 €

  • China’s Rural Development Road
    Xiaoshan Zhang / Zhou Li
    This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China’s rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country’s economic reform. As such, it addresses the most important aspects in terms of China’s rural communities, farmers and agriculture from the perspective of development, such as the agricultural management s...
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    145,01 €

  • The Development of Security and Whole Care System for the Aged in China
    Yanzhong Wang
    This book examines the process of population aging in China and its unique features, considers the social progress implied in China becoming a society with an aging population, and assesses the tremendous risks and challenges involved. Based on the development of pension security systems around the world, the book studies the status quo and future requirements of the Chinese pe...
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    64,54 €

  • Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems
    This comprehensive reference offers a robust framework for introducing and sustaining trauma-responsive services and culture in child welfare systems. Organized around concepts of safety, permanency, and well-being, chapters describe innovations in child protection, violence prevention, foster care, and adoption services to reduce immediate effects of trauma on children and imp...
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    156,81 €

  • Welfare Reform
    Antoine Parent / Rosemary A. Stevens
    Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens’ obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance ...
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    243,21 €

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V26 #1&2
    This special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, titled “Dialogue on Canada’s Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change”, features dozens of contributions written by criminalized men and women currently incarcerated in Correctional Service Canada (CSC) institutions. The writings document the counterproductive changes to federal imprisonment made by the previ...
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    35,03 €

  • Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People
    There is growing evidence that the sexual rights of older people are not being met. One reason connects with the way that older people are viewed. In many cultures, older age is associated with decline, frailty, and disease and this construction of the older person positions them as dependent, powerless, and vulnerable. ...
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    80,24 €

  • Handbook of Social Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorder
    This handbook identifies the various social deficiencies widely associated with children and youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It discusses possible causes as well as the lifelong effects if these deficiencies are not addressed. The handbook presents current behavioral and curriculum-based methods for assessing social deficits. Chapters examine the various in...
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    370,42 €

  • Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children
    This handbook addresses a broad range of topics relating to children’s social behaviors and skills. It examines numerous disorders and problems that are directly affected by excesses and deficits of social skills. The book begins by providing an overview of the history and definition of social skills, citing it as a critical aspect of children’s development. Chapters discuss de...
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    359,59 €

  • Neighbourhood Watch in a Digital Age
    Vasco Lub
    Drawing on data from 340 municipalities in the Netherlands as well as ethnographic fieldwork, this book presents original research on neighbourhood watch groups to illustrate how their actions contribute to collective efficacy and lower crime levels. Technological developments like social media and smartphones have changed the landscape of coproduction in public safety, and thi...
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    71,34 €

  • Issues in Race and Ethnicity
    The Cq Researcher
    In the wake of a divisive presidential election charged with debates over immigration and identity politics, Americans continue to grapple with questions of race and ethnicity. This collection of nonpartisan and thoroughly researched reports focuses on provocative issues including gentrification, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the resurgence of white supremacy, anti-Semit...
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    124,74 €

  • Violence in Canada
    Jeffrey Ross
    Many people consider Canada, particularly in comparison to its southern cousin, as a 'peaceable kingdom ...
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    240,24 €

  • White-collar Criminal
    Gilbert Geis / Renssalaer Lee
    In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H ...
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    239,97 €

  • Women’s Prison
    Gene Kassebaum
    This study began with both of the authors’ interest in gathering data on women in prison to see whether there were female prisoner types consistent with the reported characteristics of male prisoners. ...
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    240,82 €

  • Accessibility and Active Offer
    It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empi...
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    56,22 €

  • Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System
    Paul Brakke
    The sad truth is that the U.S. Criminal Justice System doesn’t work for many different reasons -- from our overflowing prisons to the destructive war on drugs and disproportionate effect on minority communities to conflicts between police and citizens and problems with prosecutors and the courts.  In FIXING THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, author Paul Brakke provides an in-dep...
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    7,00 €

  • Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System
    Paul Brakke
    The sad truth is that the U.S. Criminal Justice System doesn’t work for many different reasons -- from our overflowing prisons to the destructive war on drugs and disproportionate effect on minority communities to conflicts between police and citizens and problems with prosecutors and the courts.  In FIXING THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, author Paul Brakke provides an in-dep...
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    20,70 €

  • Stategraphy
    Stategraphy--the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors--offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations span...
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    184,65 €

  • Stategraphy
    Stategraphy-the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors-offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanni...
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    38,39 €

  • Governing Child Abuse Voices and Victimisation
    Jodi Death
    This book is about the emergence of child sexual abuse by personnel in Christian institutions as a social and political discourse. It explores the dynamics of the emergence and politicisation of victims, their expressions of resistance and the legitimisation of their voice in public and political spheres. ...
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    241,33 €

  • When I’m Sixty-Four
    Teresa Ghilarducci
    A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I’m Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation’s leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on, revealing the causes behind the increasingly precarious economics of old age in America and proposing a bold plan to guarantee retire...
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    37,15 €

  • The Failed Welfare Revolution
    Brian Steensland
    Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world’s rich industrial democracies. The Failed Welfare Revolution shows us that things might have turned out differently. During the 1960s and 1970s, policymakers in three presidential administrations tried to replace the nation’s existing welfare system with a revolutionary program to guarantee Americans b...
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    45,77 €


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