Provides law enforcement professionals with a comprehensive, easy-to-follow model designed specifically to improve communications with victims, witnesses, subjects, and other members of the public.

Revised edition of the author's Hate crimes, c2013.

Victimology and Victim Assistance offers insights into the criminal justice system from the victims' perspective. Investigating victim involvement in the criminal justice system, the impact of crime on victims, and new directions in victimology and victim assistance.

The Alcohol and Drug-Abuse Client Workbook is an evidence-based program that uses treatments including motivational enhancement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, medication, and 12-step facilitation.

'The world is never how it should be or how we want it to be, but this book helps in getting through.'Chris Yuill, Lecturer of Sociology, Robert Gordon University

Showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms, and in locations from around the world.

Split into three parts, this book considers what is meant by disadvantage and marginalisation, how this can come about and the impact this may have on lives, before unpicking the key knowledge and skills needed to practice effectively with individuals and groups.

Social Work Research Methods: Learning by Doing instills in students an appreciation for science-informed practice as a means of evaluating client outcomes. The book includes a step-by-step journey through the process of conducting research.

This text comprehensively and accessibly explores the relationship between surveillance and crime.