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  • State Crime

    Governments, Violence and Corruption

    What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whacker McCracker's Vineyard

    by Tony Ward ...
    In Whacker McCracker's Cafe we first met the utterly original ex-Auckland businessman who escaped his five predatory ex-wives by moving to Waiheke Island to open a simple little cafe and start a new life. Whacker's hilarious first year on the island created colourful mayhem - but that was nothing compared to what happens when his eccentric aunt moves to Waiheke from Gore and buys a new vineyard. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Unravelling Sussex

    Around the County in Riddles

    by Tony Ward ...
    If you enjoy puzzle solving you will enjoy the novel approach of Unravelling Sussex. Based on Tony Ward's Poetry+ series in Sussex Life, each famous Sussex person or place is introduced by a 'puzzle-poem'. The challenge is to unravel the embedded clues, solved by the chapter that follows. This innovative little book brings new life to the aims 'to inform, educate and entertain'. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Lives Model of Correctional Rehabilitation

    Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The book examines the Good Lives Model (GLM) of correctional rehabilitation and its dual aims of risk reduction and well-being enhancement for individuals who have committed crimes. It describes the use of individuals’ prioritized values in intervention plans and to capitalize on and further develop their strengths and reduce the risk for future offending. The book directly addresses the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • More Than Just Memories

    by Tony Ward ...
    Rites of passage, troubled voices, love and loss, nature, heroes, war, environmental crises. Tony Ward’s poems invite us to relive the experiences, triumphs, and tragedies that waymark our lives and that of our planet.This is a collection of two halves. Thirty-one of the poems have been previously published in various forms, broadcast on local radio, appeared on film, or won prizes, the other ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Culture and Child Protection

    Reflexive Responses

    Providing services that are culturally relevant is an ongoing challenge for practitioners, managers, and policy-makers within the social services. Culture and Child Protection is a concise exploration of the close links between social service practices and cultural values which offers a culturally sensitive model of child protection practice.The authors demonstrate the ways in which a combination ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Managing Sex Offender Risk

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Based on key research into assessment, treatment and recidivism, this book offers practical guidance on improving intervention techniques with sex offenders. The contributors explore the monitoring and surveillance strategies and cognitive-behavioural techniques currently used both in prison and in the community, and give clear directions for future practice. Providing a detailed overview of the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Dynamic Risk Factors for Sexual Offending

    Causal Considerations

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Dynamic risk factors add a key element to the activities of practitioners seeking to reduce recidivism in criminal populations.This book focuses on the usefulness of dynamic risk factors and their ability to provide reliable information about the likelihood of reoffending. Practitioners increasingly depend on such assessments for more accurate prediction of recidivism as well as for improving the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Law and Crime

    Series series Key Approaches to Criminology
    What is the definition of ′crime′? Law and Crime helps the criminologist to understand how the law constructs crime and how one might engage in critical analysis of such legal constructions. It uses a thematic approach to comprehensively explore the relationship between criminal conduct, criminal justice and the law.The book introduces key topics in criminal law scholarship for criminologists, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Cognitive Psychodynamics as an Integrative Framework in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book proposes a novel method of combining the current approaches to counselling and psychotherapy into one coherent framework. The authors argue that the cognitive behavioural tradition (largely focused on thought patterns) and the psychodynamic approach (centred on the client’s experience and relationships), can be successfully integrated with insights from cognitive neuroscience, to form a ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • State Crime and Civil Activism

    On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance

    Series series Crimes of the Powerful
    State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries – Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and how they document and criticise wrongdoing by governments. It documents the dialectical process by which repression stimulates and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Criminology

    Towards a Comprehensive Explanation of Crime

    In our attempts to understand crime, researchers typically focus on proximate factors such as the psychology of offenders, their developmental history, and the social structure in which they are embedded. While these factors are important, they don't tell the whole story. Evolutionary Criminology: Towards a Comprehensive Explanation of Crime explores how evolutionary biology adds to our ... Read more

    $67.49 USD