A volume that is at the forefront of engaging in the conversation about the future of the American prison.

Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview from Six Continents explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

A comprehensive introduction to all the key topics, criminological theories, and important themes that students will cover when studying criminology and criminal justice.

This book is a guide for students progressing through field work to help them review key skills and reinforce their field learning experience.

Featuring thirty-one new articles by experts in the field, this dynamic forensic psychology reader emphasizes the ways that forensic psychologists apply psychological knowledge, concepts, and principles on a day-to-day basis.

Revised edition of the authors' Gangs in America's communities, [2016]

A lively and timely overview of a modern preoccupation

Guides social work and social care students through working with disabled people. Unique in its aspirational, outcomes-focused approach.

Best-selling text on direct practice learning for degree students

Dit boek gaat onder meer over de zevenjarige Bryan, die seksueel misbruikt is door zijn vader. Over de negenjarige Oumou die met haar familie het oorlogsgeweld in een Afrikaans land ontvlucht en daarbij haar moeder verliest en over de zesjarige Thomas die een pijnlijke chemokuur heeft moeten doorstaan.

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