Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned names in the field, this engaging and lively handbook is a definitive resource to the controversial topic of punishment and society.

Using cutting-edge research, this text lays a theoretical foundation to help students and practitioners understand the grounding and theory behind strengths-based therapy and then presents a model for use with a variety of client types/settings.

Provides a modern perspective on the most pressing issues for counseling clients with diverse cultural backgrounds and ethnicities, while simultaneously including the impact of long-standing patterns of discrimination and oppression in American society.

This book applies systematically developed research knowledge to social work practice and emphasizes the "doing" of social work as a reciprocal avenue for generating research evidence and social work knowledge.

A trusted, full-featured companion to criminological research, this edition expands and updates case studies, methods and project strategies to help students prepare, do and present their research.

A practical book that shows how both Excel (R) and SPSS (R) can be used for analyzing data for human service evaluation.

Illustrated with carefully selected and edited research articles from the leading journals in the field, this book helps to teach research design and techniques within the context of criminology and criminal justice issues of interest to students and the field.

Presented from a criminal justice perspective, Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of cybercrime by exploring the theoretical, practical, and legal framework it operates under, along with strategies to combat it. Authors Janine Kremling and Amanda M. Sharp Parker provide a straightforward overview of cybercrime, cyberthreats, and the vulnerabilities individuals, businesses, and governments face everyday in a digital environment.

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Revised edition of the authors' Race and crime, [2016]