Social services & welfare, criminology
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Social services & welfare, criminology
Hardcover. Polish vs. American Courtroom Discourse brings together the fields of discourse analysis and socio-legal studies to identify, illustrate and explain the cross-cultural similarities and disparities between the inquisitorial and adversarial procedures of witness examination in criminal trials. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; JKVF; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414243
- ISBN
- 9781137414243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This book analyses social work through the concept of 'xenoracism' to challenge the outdated concepts of racism that still pervade social work. It illustrates how, through their discursive practices, social workers are able to counteract the dominant anti asylum seeking discourses. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFJ; JFSL1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415035
- ISBN
- 9781137415035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Policing the Inner City in France, Britain, and the US (Europe in Cris...
Body-Gendrot, Sophie, de Wenden, Catherine Wi...
Hardcover. This book analyzes and compares the police's inner city presence in France, the US, and Britain. Its authors' research points to the idea that the creation of a more inclusive environment is a sound approach for cities looking to better maintain peace, reduce discrimination, and manage the dynamic between police and citizens in inner cities. Series: Europe in Crisis. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; JPB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427991
- ISBN
- 9781137427991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434128
- ISBN
- 9781137434128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.01
€ 78.01
Hardback. Financial Crime in China builds upon original research into the topic and offers a never-before-seen look at the systemic spread of state-controlled financial corruption in the form of bank fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, and Ponzi schemes. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKVK; KCL; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435293
- ISBN
- 9781137435293
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.36
€ 127.36
Hardcover. In recent years the death penalty has sharply declined across Africa, but this trend belies actual public opinion and the retributivist sentiments held by political elites. This study explains capital punishment in Africa in terms of culturally specific notions of life and death as well as the colonial-era imposition of criminal and penal policy. Num Pages: 130 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438751
- ISBN
- 9781137438751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardcover. This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment. Num Pages: 120 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; JHBZ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439383
- ISBN
- 9781137439383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending women-only groups, these women are able to confront the double standard that makes recovery from addiction especially difficult. Num Pages: 134 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JFSJ1; JKSN; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440693
- ISBN
- 9781137440693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Exploring the way in which criminal punishment is interpreted and narrated by offenders, this book examines the meaning offenders ascribe to their sentence and the consequences of this for future desistance. Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVP1; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440822
- ISBN
- 9781137440822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender, class, rapid social changes and female law-breaking in neoliberal China. Series: Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia. Num Pages: 142 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFSC; JFSJ1; JFSL3; JKVC; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441430
- ISBN
- 9781137441430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. This book analyzes how strategic intelligence can support decision-makers in national policing organizations to anticipate transnational organized crime (TOC). The authors examine case studies from Australia, Canada and the UK, and argue for the development of empirically-grounded intelligence theory to aid the policy process and law enforcement. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; JKVM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137443878
- ISBN
- 9781137443878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; KJVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137444738
- ISBN
- 9781137444738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. This book addresses how the Conservative Party has re-focused its interest in social policy. Analysing to what extent the Conservatives have changed within this particular policy sphere, the book explores various theoretical, social, political, and electoral dimensions of the subject matter. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JKS; JPFM; JPL; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137445803
- ISBN
- 9781137445803
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGB; AGN; JFFZ; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137447203
- ISBN
- 9781137447203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Paperback. This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies, revealing the mounting death tolls arising at illegal borders in Europe, Australia and North America. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 262 pages, 11 black & white tables, 5 figures, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN; JFFS; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453150
- ISBN
- 9781137453150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of sexual homicide. It includes a thorough survey of offender classifications, and analyses current theoretical explanations and understandings of sexual homicide from a criminological perspective. It proposes an important new integrated theoretical understanding of sexual homicide offenders. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKV; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453716
- ISBN
- 9781137453716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.24
€ 127.24
Hardback. This book offers a solution-focused response to the debates around youth and adult mentally disordered offenders. It draws on the knowledge and experience of academics and professionals who constructively explore ways to integrate research evidence and practitioner knowledge into current and future initiatives. Editor(s): Winstone, Jane. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFH; JKVQ; LNFB; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137453860
- ISBN
- 9781137453860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.94
€ 139.94
Hardcover. The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 graphs, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; JFFP; JFSP; JHBK; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454720
- ISBN
- 9781137454720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book analyses the life histories of Jamaican men involved in the UK drugs trade, including wholesalers, street dealers, specialist cooks, cutters, and growers. Employing a life history approach, their autobiographical accounts are examined to provide an in-depth and unique insight of their journeys into drugs and crime. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KJWJ; JFFH1; JFSJ2; JKVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456649
- ISBN
- 9781137456649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Culture and the Politics of Welfare: Exploring Societal Values and Soc...
Hudson, John, Jo, Nam Kyoung, Keung, Antonia
Hardcover. This text offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, utilizes these measures to explore the role culture plays in shaping differences in social policy frameworks across high income countries. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457486
- ISBN
- 9781137457486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12