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  • Youth Offending and Youth Justice

    by James Armitage, Sheila Brown, Mark Halsey, Anna King, Shadd Maruna, Susan McVie, Rod Morgan, Joanna Phoenix, Anna Souhami ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such key issues.Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Execution

    A History of Capital Punishment in Britain

    by Simon Webb ...
    Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. This book explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weak Courts, Strong Rights

    Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

    by Mark Tushnet ...
    Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Torture

    Persuasion at its Most Gruesome

    by Geoffrey Abbott ...
    How did it feel to be faced with the prospect of being branded, pressed to death or boiled alive in oil?In this classic account of the history of torture, Geoffrey Abbott guides us through some of the worst torture methods known to man, from chilli powder punishment to needles under nails, with a style both chilling and full of dark humour. Prepare to be shocked to the core with this gruesome ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School

    A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11

    by Helen Worrall, Sian Templeton, Netty Roberts, Ann Frost, Eleanor Durrant, Jane Fain, Cathy Mills, Kim S. Golding ...
    Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which enables staff to identify behavioural patterns in children with social and emotional difficulties, analyse the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The New Health Care System: Everything You Need to Know

    by David Nather ...
    A primer in plain English that explains how health insurance will work under the new legislation and how it will affect your care and your choices going forward.Now that "Obamacare" (as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is popularly known) has become the law of the land, millions of Americans will need help figuring out exactly how the new system will work and how it might affect ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tragedy Waiting to Happen – The Chaotic Life of Brendan O'Donnell

    The true story of an abandoned orphan who became a psychotic killer

    by Tony Muggivan, JJ Muggivan ...
    For years, Tony Muggivan urged the Irish social system to offer appropriate treatment to the desperately sick Brendan O'Donnell. A Tragedy Waiting to Happen is the harrowing story of his doomed attempts and the awful consequences of that failure: a triple murder. Tony Muggivan is a farmer. One wet night in February 1989, Brendan O'Donnell entered his life and that of his family. He had absconded ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Struggle Within

    Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States

    by Dan Berger, dream hampton ...
    The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years. Berger examines some of the most dynamic social movements across half a century: black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, Native American sovereignty, Chicano radicalism, white antiracist ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young People in Forensic Mental Health Settings

    Psychological Thinking and Practice

    Edited by Joel Harvey, Andrew Rogers, Heather Law ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological thinking and practice when working with young people who display high risk behaviours across a broad range of forensic mental health settings in the UK. It provides an up-to-date account of current ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Policy Transfer in Criminal Justice

    Crossing Cultures, Breaking Barriers

    by Mary Anne McFarlane, Rob Canton ...
    Will 'what works' in one country work in another? This unique collection examines the cross-cultural transfer of skills and expertise, drawing out the opportunities and challenges involved in taking penal practices from one country to another. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sentenced to Science

    One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America

    by Allen M. Hornblum, Harriet Washington ...
    From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert M. Kligman. While most of the experiments were testing cosmetics, detergents, and deodorants, the trials also included scores of Phase I drug trials, inoculations of radioactive isotopes, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice

    Professional Practice with Offenders

    by C. Knight ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work of practitioners and make visible the impact of both positive and negative emotions, which play a crucial role in practitioner-offender relationships.Exploring how practitioners understand, regulate and work with emotion, Knight argues that the 'soft ... Read more

    $49.49 USD