Introduction to Emergency Management sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency managers. Haddow...
Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfare...
Globalisation, the wired planet, the global village, these are a few of the terms associated with the social and political changes that are said to...
Issues of surveillance, control and privacy in relation to the internet are coming to the fore as a result of state concern with security, crime and...
This book addresses the long-standing global issue of poverty. An introductory chapter explores concepts and definitions of poverty, the subsequent...
Most prisoners in the UK are required to work. Yet prison work is a relatively neglected subject in the existing literature on imprisonment and few...
When Race Counts investigates the use of race-conscious practices in social policy in Britain and America. It questions the distinction between...
A useful theoretical analysis of the discourse surrounding women's deviancy. Based on hundreds of interviews with magistrates, solicitors...
Reparation, or making amends, is an ancient theme in criminal justice. It was revived in both Europe and North America in the 1980s as a practical...
In many areas of the world, there has been an earlier indigenous population, which has been conquered by a more recent population group. In Social...