Illegale wietplantages, mensenhandel, XTC-labs, grootschalige fraude - de georganiseerde criminaliteit grijpt om zich heen in Nederland. Bestuurders worden geïntimideerd, ondernemers worden medeplichtig gemaakt en kwetsbare burgers worden uitgebuit. De samenleving wordt ondermijnd. Politie en justitie kunnen het probleem niet alleen aan. Conventionele methoden van opsporing en vervolging schieten te kort. Daarom zoeken medewerkers van de Nationale Politie, het Openbaar Ministerie, de Belasti...

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

Het nieuwe boek Kritisch zoeken, denken en evalueren combineert op unieke en effectieve wijze kritisch denken en informatievaardigheden. Studenten leren efficiënt informatie te zoeken, vinden, gebruiken en te beoordelen. Hiermee sluit het boek uitstekend aan op de 21st century skills.

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* Het enige studieboek dat kritisch denken en informatievaardigheden combineert;

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A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary issues. Integrating guides to further reading and clear examples of how research methods can be applied, it enables readers to feel confident about taking their study of politics forward.

An ideal foundation for study and research in political s...

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world’s population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard considers the different ways that the lived and messy realities of urban life have been approached by geographers, past and present.

Situating these in the context of ongoing debates concerning gl...

In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”-bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors-to disrupt the category of disability.

She shows how debility, disability, and capacity together constitute an assemblage that states use to cont...

This book will enable students to better understand key concepts and ethical and philosophical positions which will inform their assessed work and competence as a professional.

Looking in depth at the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client, this now includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies.

Victimology: A Text/Reader, Second Edition, engages students with the most current, cutting-edge articles published in the field of victimology as well as connects them to the basic concepts. Unlike existing victimology textbooks, this unique combination of published articles with original material presented in a mini-chapter format puts each topic into context so students can develop a better understanding of the extent, causes, and responses to victimization. Students will build a foundatio...

An Introduction to Data Science is an easy-to-read data science textbook for those with no prior coding knowledge. It features exercises at the end of each chapter, author-generated tables and visualizations, and R code examples throughout.