Social services & welfare, criminology
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Social services & welfare, criminology
Hardcover. Editor(s): Herrmann, Peter. Num Pages: 202 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 18. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604562507
- ISBN
- 9781604562507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.90€ 78.86
€ 114.90
€ 78.86
Paperback. Drawing on advances in the social sciences, this book shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs - and how better governance can lead to better performance. It shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance. Editor(s): Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Lynn, Laurence E. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBC; JKSB; JP; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878407996
- ISBN
- 9780878407996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.51
€ 70.51
Paperback. This ground-breaking book uses extensive research and survey evidence to challenge the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it. It shows that all of us rely on the welfare state through our lifetimes, not just a small 'welfare-dependent' minority. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFFA; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447320036
- ISBN
- 9781447320036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.37
€ 19.37
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447336471
- ISBN
- 9781447336471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.50
€ 18.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. This is a practical and trans-disciplinary guide for professionals working with vulnerable adults, who include the frail elderly, those with mental health problems or physical disabilities, learning disabilities or serious physical illness. The contributors address key problems and dilemmas in working to protect these groups from abuse. Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography, references, index. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853029820
- ISBN
- 9781853029820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.14
€ 38.14
Paperback. Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work. It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and national guidance such as Achieving Best Evidence. Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JKS; JKSG; LNTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843109372
- ISBN
- 9781843109372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.19
€ 40.99
€ 40.19
Paperback. This book draws together contributors' experiences of working with safeguarding children on a broad range of issues, including neglect, trafficked children, parents with learning difficulties and child protection supervision. The contributors discuss current dilemmas in safeguarding children work and provide models of good practice. Editor(s): Hughes, Liz; Owen, Hilary. Series Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, diagrams, figures. BIC Classification: JKSB1; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843109457
- ISBN
- 9781843109457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.24
€ 40.99
€ 40.24
Paperback. Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection. The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked. Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843106999
- ISBN
- 9781843106999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.01
€ 34.01
Paperback. Good Practice in Recovery and Healing from Abuse: Adult Survivors is an extensive guide that gives insight on how to be creative in helping adult victims of abuse through the recovery and healing processes. The book features chapters written by practitioners and researchers involved in the different sectors of working with abuse. Series Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b&w diagrams. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKSN; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849053723
- ISBN
- 9781849053723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.64
€ 40.99
€ 40.64
Paperback. Incorporating the voices of professionals counselling survivors of abuse, and those of the survivors themselves, this book provides the reader with a theoretical understanding of people who have endured abuse, as well as practical approaches to counselling them. The effects of different types of abuse and abusive environments are explored. Editor(s): Bear, Zetta. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFF; JKSN2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853024245
- ISBN
- 9781853024245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.38
€ 44.38
Paperback. Good Practice in Child Protection is a practical handbook for use by all professionals who work with child abuse cases as they get to grips with the new legislation on child protection. The book is soundly based on theory, but its main emphasis is on practice, and it includes exercises to improve practice in specific areas of child protection work. Editor(s): Owen, Hilary; Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JKSB1; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853022050
- ISBN
- 9781853022050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.38
€ 44.38
Paperback. This book provides a guide to effective case management, outlining all the key issues that professionals working with brain-injured people will need to know, from understanding what brain injury actually is and how it feels to experience it to strategies for rehabilitation, assessing risk and implementing support plans. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN2; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843103158
- ISBN
- 9781843103158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.89
€ 46.99
€ 46.89
Paperback. This book is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, covering a wide variety of social care settings. The contributors discuss a range of key issues relating to risk including positive risk-taking, collaborating with victims and practitioners in the design of assessment tools, resilience to risk, and defensibility. Editor(s): Kemshall, Hazel; Wilkinson, Bernadette. Series Editor(s): Pritchard, Jacki. Series: Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables. BIC Classification: JKS; JKVS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849050593
- ISBN
- 9781849050593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.19
€ 40.99
€ 40.19
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fernwood Publishing Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552664148
- ISBN
- 9781552664148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.30
€ 26.99
€ 23.30
paperback. This book examines why consumers assign value judgments to murder, rather than accept murder as a deliberately negative act. Consumers make such judgments because they perceive murder as an entertaining product of information, and also because they see in this product a positive, problem-solving strategy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: GPF; JFD; JFFE; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Rev ed.
- SKU
- V9780761804505
- ISBN
- 9780761804505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.06
€ 83.06
hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JH; JKSN1; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 267 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816691128
- ISBN
- 9780816691128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.04
€ 93.04
Paperback. Neil Woods spent fourteen years (1993-2007) infiltrating drug gangs as an undercover policeman, befriending and gaining the trust of some of the most violent criminals in Britain. This is the story of how a thoughtful, idealistic character learned to use his empathetic nature to master some of the most dangerous work in law enforcement. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785032707
- ISBN
- 9781785032707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.72
€ 19.99
€ 14.72
Paperback. An essential book for all those clinicians and reserachers undertaking clinical trials. It will ensure that all involved in clinical trials undertake their investigation according to standard operating procedures. Editor(s): Kolman, Josef; Meng, Paul; Scott, Graeme. Num Pages: 210 pages, forms. BIC Classification: JKSW; MBPC; TDCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 242 x 176 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Spi
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471969365
- ISBN
- 9780471969365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 159.07
€ 159.07
Paperback. Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 412 pages, 8 line illustrations, 1 map, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486. Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Series: American Crossroads. 412 pages, 8 line illustrations, 1 map, 10 tables. Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKVP1. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 25. Weight: 478.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 412
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520242012
- ISBN
- 9780520242012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.38
€ 33.99
€ 24.38
Paperback. Going Missing presents important findings from the first major study of young people who go missing from residential and foster homes. Series: Living Away from Home: Studies in Residential Care. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471984764
- ISBN
- 9780471984764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.42
€ 72.42