Dit boek bevat de resultaten van een drie jaar durend onderzoek door een onderzoeksteam van de Universiteit Maastricht (UM)/ Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR) naar de versterking van de aanpak van druggerelateerde georganiseerde criminaliteit – ook wel aangeduid als ondermijning. In het boek wordt de balans opgemaakt van de wijze waarop deze versterkingsbeweging in de periode 2019-2022 procesmatig is vormgegeven.

De resultaten van het onderzoek bieden een aantal concrete aanknopingspunte...

De westerse wereld lijkt in de greep te zijn van een grootschalig gender-experiment. Er wordt steeds vaker verkondigd dat biologisch geslacht er niet echt toe doet en dat vooral iemands subjectief ervaren genderidentiteit telt. Dit blijkt in de praktijk voor het leven van mensen verstrekkende gevolgen te kunnen hebben.In dit boek worden diverse aspecten van het gender-experiment belicht door (ervarings)deskundigen uit de Verenigde Staten, Ierland, Duitsland, België en Nederland. Het boek bev...

This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists.

Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. The advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to ...

We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable.

And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we rev...

Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies, a valuable resource which have faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of development, measure the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies and promote the increasing importance of health problems related to lifestyle and living conditions, yet they have failed to provide a true resolution to the persistent econ...

How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives? Global Development: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to the shifting landscape of global development, right from its origins, to present-day problems, and on to what the future for global development might look like. Recognising global development as an economic, political, and social project, this book tackles a serie...

Fully updated fourth edition of Trotter's well-established text on working with involuntary clients. The new edition includes a new chapter on Collaborative Family Work and additional emphasis on trauma informed practice. Includes plentiful case examples and links to practice, from a range of settings including work with people with addictions, young people who refuse to go to school and mental health patients who refuse treatment, as well as examples from criminal justice and child protection.

Presents a practical model for evidence-based practice and discusses a range of intervention models and relationships skills. Takes into account up-to-date research evidence throughou...

In one hundred lean and incisive statements, Douglas Rushkoff argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together-not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as a way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further ...

This concise guide equips readers with the essential skills required to analyze and critically appraise health research evidence, an integral element to evidence-based practice and professional development.