This is an engaging examination of prisoner re-entry and how to improve public safety, well-being, and justice in the "era of mass incarceration."

Helping students' development of attitudes and values and their professional identity as they embark on their journey toward becoming a counselor, this book presents them with a clear roadmap of how to start, progress, and finish their practice and internship; and will help students integrate the knowledge they have learned across the curriculum.

Built on a foundation of nearly 1,200 references, this is a highly readable text that shows how organizational theory and behaviour can be applied to improve the operations, leadership, and management of law enforcement in the US.

A resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing, this book will help them to pick a perfect career path and know what to do to go about applying

Bringing together a range of expert voices to tackle the essential topics relevant to the study of disability from a social perspective, this interdisciplinary introduction includes over 50 chapters relevant across health and social care.

Advocacy is an essential skill for social workers who need to be able to speak confidently on behalf of service-users in a range of situations. In this new book, Jane Dalrymple and Jane Boylan explore the theory and research behind advocacy and draw on a range of case studies to demonstrate how to achieve best practice.

This book sees leading national and international scholars provide a critical assessment of the relation between 'evidence' and contemporary youth justice policy formation, and it has been fully updated to recognize the major reforms of recent years in the youth justice policy environment.

An indispensable international resource for students and researchers of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.

This text offers basic generalist practice methods which emphasize the common elements in working with individuals, families and groups.

Moving away from the usual medical-modeled framework of mental health focused on problems, this title takes a postmodern, social construction approach, looking for and amplifying strengths and encouraging stakeholders to use them.