A comprehensive and up-to-date new undergraduate text on the application and impact of psychology on modern policing.

A grounding to the key issues in safeguarding today, highlighting the key skills and knowledge necessary for effective practice

This book is a guide for students progressing through field work to help them review key skills and reinforce their field learning experience.

Featuring thirty-one new articles by experts in the field, this dynamic forensic psychology reader emphasizes the ways that forensic psychologists apply psychological knowledge, concepts, and principles on a day-to-day basis.

This book provides essential knowledge and skills to address all the new social work education requirements for placements and practice learning. It will help students to successfully pass their compulsory social work placement whilst meeting the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) for Social Workers and developing their professional practice.

The child is placed at the heart of the text and it includes substantial chapters examining key pieces of legislation, law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice and help students gain confidence whilst on placements.

A practical introduction developed to underpin core aspects of commissioning services in health and social care with tools and strategies that really work, this is a step-by-step guide to the commissioning process and will help the reader better understand the skills required for good commissioning, the challenges they may face and how to approach them and what makes a good commissioning manager.

A volume that is at the forefront of engaging in the conversation about the future of the American prison.