Social services & welfare, criminology
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Social services & welfare, criminology
Hardcover. This book explores the relationship between the Irish police and ethnic minorities, made particularly pressing by the rapid ethnic diversification of Irish society. It addresses the current deficit in knowledge of this area by exploring how Irish police officers conceive of, talk about, and interact with Ireland's immigrant minority communities. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JFSL; JKSW1; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 277 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490445
- ISBN
- 9781137490445
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Hardcover. The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVM; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490285
- ISBN
- 9781137490285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.99
€ 82.99
Hardcover. This book attributes American poverty to consequences 19th Century social welfare policies within an economy stretching to meet its 21st Century economic potential, arguing that American poverty persists as economic and political structures have moved into the world of fiscal planning but social welfare remains in its Depression-era structure. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485472
- ISBN
- 9781137485472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JPP; KCP; KJVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482884
- ISBN
- 9781137482884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.16
€ 127.16
Hardback. This book offers a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of sociology in Sweden from the prewar period to the present day. It focuses in particular on scientific boundaries, gender and the relationship between sociology and the Swedish welfare state. Series: Sociology Transformed. Num Pages: 111 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSJ; JHB; JHBC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482297
- ISBN
- 9781137482297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; JFSL; JHBK; JKSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137480644
- ISBN
- 9781137480644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Defining Crime: A Critique of the Concept and Its Implication
Lynch, Michael J., Stretesky, Paul B., Long, ...
Hardcover. Defining Crime explores the limitations of the legal definition of crime, how that politically based definition has shaped criminological research, and why criminologists must redefine crime to include scientific objectivity. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JKV; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479341
- ISBN
- 9781137479341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Giving the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics, this book deconstructs the child trafficking paradigm, contrasts it with 'real histories of child and youth labour and mobility, and seeks to explain it by going 'inside the anti-trafficking field. Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development. Num Pages: 178 pages, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JFSP1; JKV; LNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478177
- ISBN
- 9781137478177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.03
€ 183.03
Hardcover. Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and More-than-human Agency provides a unique account of environmentalism - one that highlights the voices of activists and the nature they defend. It will be of interest to both students and academics in green criminology, environmental sociology and nature-human studies more broadly. Series: Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFZ; JKV; RNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137473776
- ISBN
- 9781137473776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardcover. The author aims to develop conceptual refining and theoretical reframing of the productivist welfare capitalism thesis in order to address a set of questions concerning whether and how productivist welfarism has experienced both continuity and change in East Asia. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FP; JKSB; JPRB; KCM; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471840
- ISBN
- 9781137471840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardback. Series: Disaster Studies. Num Pages: 185 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JKV; JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 185
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469137
- ISBN
- 9781137469137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.80
€ 149.80
Hardcover. This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal efficiencies or provide investment opportunities to the commercial sector. Num Pages: 124 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; HPQ; JHBA; JKVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137468451
- ISBN
- 9781137468451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 308 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JKSN; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137462688
- ISBN
- 9781137462688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Hardback. With the recent media interest in celebrity childhood sexual abuse and rape cases, we think we know what sexual violence is and who 'rape victims' are. But this portrayal is limited. Drawing on in-depth accounts from women who have experienced rape, this book revisits issues of credibility, responsibility and feminism to provide missing details. Num Pages: 141 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JFFK; JHBK5; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 141
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137461711
- ISBN
- 9781137461711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.66
€ 71.66
Hardcover. Safety and Security in Transit Environments presents interdisciplinary studies from leading international authors. This important volume identifies key challenges and complexities in addressing security and safety concerns in transit settings, policy recommendations for prevention, and new frontiers for research at transit settings. Editor(s): Ceccato, Vania; Newton, Andrew; Robinson, E. A. G. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 418 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVC; KNG; RPT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457646
- ISBN
- 9781137457646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.24
€ 162.24
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
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
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
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. 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