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  • The Future of Mental Health, Disability and Criminal Law

    Edited by Kay Wilson, Yvette Maker, Piers Gooding, Jamie Walvisch ...
    This book brings together contributions from twenty-three world-leading scholars and commentators that address a range of contemporary and pressing international themes in mental health, disability and criminal law. The authors use the work of internationally renowned academic, Emeritus Professor Bernadette McSherry, as a springboard to reflect on recent developments in these areas of law and to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy

    Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    by Piers Gooding ...
    Series series Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
    The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has generated new ideas and standards in healthcare and disability law and policy. In the mental health context, the CRPD directs governments to ensure people with mental impairments are treated equally before the law, including ensuring people have access to the resources necessary to enjoy their rights. But what this means in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Lucy Series ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘deprivation of liberty’ resulted in large numbers of older and disabled people in care homes, supported ... Read more

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  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

    by Bronagh Byrne, Kate Diesfeld, Petra Engelbrecht, John Hancock, Neville Harris, Jim Jackson, Laura Lundy, Nina Ranieri, Marius Smit, M K. Teh, Fatt Hee Tie, Sally Varnham, Ran Zhang, Greg M. Dickinson, Allan G. Osborne Jr. ...
    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Child Welfare

    Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt, Brad McKenzie ...
    Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice has a special focus on Canadian child welfare and contains entirely new material on these ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Contemporary Social Work Practice: A Handbook For Students

    by Barbra Teater ...
    An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law

    Fighting for Social Justice

    by Felicity Callard, Norman Sartorius, Peter Bartlett, Hanfried Helmchen, Heather Stuart, Graham Thornicroft, Julio Arboleda-Flórez, José Taborda ...
    This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents ... Read more

    $114.00 USD

  • Effective Safeguarding for Children and Young People

    What next after Munro?

    by Maggie Blyth, Enver Solomon ...
    The number of children entering the child protection system has risen dramatically in the last three years with implications for children's services and partner agencies. This timely volume takes a critical look at the impact of the Munro Review (2011) on child protection and the Government's response. It looks at questions including how effective Local Safeguarding Children Boards are in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Law and Youth Work

    by Mary Maguire ...
    Series series Empowering Youth and Community Work PracticeýLM Series
    This book offers a practical and straightforward approach to understanding how the law protects, empowers and regulates young people′s lives. The implications for the professional youth worker of a wide range of dilemmas are considered. Workers are encouraged to consider what is meant by rights and, through practical examples, to examine their own beliefs and ethical codes, particularly where they ... Read more

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  • The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe

    Understanding Breach Processes

    Edited by Miranda Boone, Niamh Maguire ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action’s work on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

    The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

    by Penelope Weller ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and mental health law, and the changing attitudes which have led to the recognition of a right to demand ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Practical Child Law for Social Workers

    by Clare Seymour, Richard B. Seymour ...
    The English legal system in the area of social work with children and families can be bewildering and complex and it is vital therefore that any textbook on the subject uses case law, case studies and research to critically-engage social workers and students alike. This book does just that - by examining, and putting into clear practical context, the current law and policy relating to social work ... Read more

    $62.99 USD