Social services & welfare, criminology
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Social services & welfare, criminology
Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture (Critical Crim...
O'neill, Maggie, Seal, Lizzie
Hardcover. This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'. Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives. Num Pages: 200 pages, 13 black & white halftones, 1 figures. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577848
- ISBN
- 9780230577848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.16
€ 122.16
Hardcover. This book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need. Num Pages: 455 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSR; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580992
- ISBN
- 9780230580992
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.83
€ 124.83
Globalization, Police Reform and Development: Doing it the Western Way...
Ellison, Graham, Pino, Nathan
Hardcover. This volume presents a unique examination of Western-led police reform efforts by theoretically linking neoliberal globalization, police reform and development. The authors present seven country case studies based on this theoretical and conceptual approach and assess the prospects for successful police reform in a global context. Series: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JKSW1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581029
- ISBN
- 9780230581029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. This book explores the accounts given by white-collar crime offenders to defend their criminal behaviour in order to preserve their characters and social standing. Series: Crime Prevention and Security Management. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKVK; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581852
- ISBN
- 9780230581852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. Examines the institutionalization of self-help in the US using organizational and social movement theories. This book explores the ways in which the marginal practices of sufferers of chronic conditions like Parkinson's or alcoholism became the common solution for various manner of medical, behavioural, and psychological problems. Num Pages: 202 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKS; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600379
- ISBN
- 9780230600379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardcover. Shlapentokh asserts that asocial behavior in both medieval France and the contemporary West is not a marginal occurrence but rather a mainstream phenomena, and one that can often be stopped by strong force as the only antidote to social chaos. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLC; JKV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603752
- ISBN
- 9780230603752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. China's leaders are confronted with building a new support system in the countryside, shifting the burden in urban China from the factory to the local state, and integrating new social groups into existing systems. This book comprises a detailed study of healthcare, disease control, social insurance and social relief. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609518
- ISBN
- 9780230609518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. China's infamous death penalty record is the product of firm Party-state control and policy-setting. Though during the 1980s and 1990s, the Party's emphasis was on "kill many," in the 2000s the direction of policy began to move toward "kill fewer." This book details the policies, institutions, and story behind the reform of the death penalty. Series: Palgrave Series in Asian Governance. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613546
- ISBN
- 9780230613546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.04
€ 123.04
Paperback. This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290. Public Education and Venture Philanthropy. Series: Education, Politics and Public Life. 200 pages, 0. This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JNK. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615151
- ISBN
- 9780230615151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.46€ 44.37
€ 50.46
€ 44.37
Hardcover. This text argues for the usefulness of fictional realities for criminological theorizing and analysis. It illustrates that a creative and critical social scientific practice requires craft norms rather than commercial norms that threaten to completely colonize higher education. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615168
- ISBN
- 9780230615168
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; JKV; LNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615984
- ISBN
- 9780230615984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. War and Social Welfare is a critical study of the internationally-led reconstruction of the social welfare programs in post-conflict Kosovo. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYK; JKS; JWX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620780
- ISBN
- 9780230620780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. This project examines Ida B. Wells's ethical interrogation of America's infatuation with terror. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 194 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRA; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230622388
- ISBN
- 9780230622388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. Through discussions of various theories of grief, narratives of the bereaved obtained in interviews with 22 men and women, case study analysis, and chapter summaries, this text integrates the literature about and the bereavement experiences of partners in varying types of relationships. Num Pages: 304 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JKSN; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119696
- ISBN
- 9780231119696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.94
€ 45.99
€ 32.94
Paperback. When first published in 1982, this work was one of the most remarkable scholarly projects ever undertaken by an America historian: a systematic rewriting of U.S. history that put fire at the center of the narrative. From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 680 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSW2; PSAF; RNF; TNKF; TTP; TVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / vocational (manuals etc). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295975924
- ISBN
- 9780295975924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.30
€ 52.30
paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JKV; JMK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
- SKU
- V9780306402685
- ISBN
- 9780306402685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.48
€ 63.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306421693
- ISBN
- 9780306421693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.29
€ 193.29
Hardback. Series: Law, Society & Policy. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306425257
- ISBN
- 9780306425257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 224.13
€ 224.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Berlin, Louis. Series: Criminal Justice & Public Safety S. Num Pages: 444 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1770.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Edition
- 3rd ed. 1988
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306428852
- ISBN
- 9780306428852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.96
€ 130.96
Hardback. Often regarded as a mystery, Interpol (the world association of national police forces for mutual assistance in the fight against international crimes and criminal conspiracies) is analyzed in this book by a research scientist, and its inner workings scrutinized. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Series: Criminal Justice & Public Safety S. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306431357
- ISBN
- 9780306431357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 191.07
€ 191.07