'Excellent resource that should be essential reading for all those considering working with young people whatever their background or discipline' - Miss Isabelle King, WFD, national Council of Voluntary Youth Services

A comprehensive guide to the research process, using criminological examples drawn mainly from the UK. Provides students with the skills and knowledge both to conduct their own research, and to evaluate the research of others, with frequent explicit discussions of the key points in each of these areas.

Introducing research methods as an integrated set of techniques to investigate social issues and concerns common to social work practice, this book connects research methods to evidence-based practice.

This book is intended to help students and professionals become more aware of group decision making processes and how each member contributes to it to make better quality decisions.

This book is a framework for students to understand social work practice by integrating the three major realms of practice: Micro, Mezzo, and Macro. It also offers and integrated approach to global action.

Offering new and innovative ways of thinking about the relationship between media and crime, Media and Crime in the U.S. critically examines the influence of media coverage of crimes on US culture and identity.

This innovative book equips readers with the knowledge and skills they need to be effective case management practitioners in a variety of health and human service organizations.

A guide designed to provide students and practitioners with a practical tutorial on the key functions of a case manager serving adults with severe mental illness. It focuses on a direct approach that time-pressed readers can appreciate when learning the fundamentals of providing mental health case management.

This book examines the purpose and structure of social policy and presents the various domains of policy required for the course (child welfare, housing, social security, income, and more).