Welfare Words analyses a number of keywords and phrases commonly used by policy-makers, news-outlets and wider society, when referring to social policy, welfare reform and social work in the present-day culture of neoliberal capitalism.

Criminaliteit vormt voor de directe slachtoffers een grote schadepost, materieel en emotioneel. Ook andere burgers voelen zich onveilig, nemen preventieve maatregelen, passen hun gedrag aan. Criminaliteitsbestrijding gaat echter evenzeer gepaard met substantiële kosten. Dat vraagt om een maatschappelijke afweging. Zijn de maatregelen zo effectief, dat de maatschappelijke baten vanwege de terugdringing van de criminaliteit

voldoende rechtvaardiging vormen voor de maatschappelijke kosten van de

criminaliteitsbestrijding? Of kan het bete...

Op zondagochtend 17 maart 2002 kreeg de brandweer van het Noord-Brabantse stadje Klundert de melding dat er brand was in een van de rijtjeshuizen op de Eikenlaan. Toen de brandweermannen het huis in gingen, zagen zij dat het overhoop was gehaald. Daarna vonden ze in een van de slaapkamers op de bovenverdieping twee lichamen. Het waren de lichamen van de 23-jarige bewoonster Ona Sileikaite en haar tweejarige dochtertje Adina. Bij de sectie bleek dat Ona en Adina niet door de brand om het leven...

With lots of illustrations and interviews with key urban analysts, this book offers a field-defining look at the challenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics.

With new chapters on ethnicity and immigration, and with material supported by 30 new case studies, this up to date resource provides students with an engaging - and international - introduction to the subject

This book, written for practicing social workers undertaking their ASYE and compulsory CPD, has been designed to help professionals make sound judgments in increasingly complex contexts and under pressure.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation. Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in. What does our future hold? Yuval Noah Harari, author of the bestselling phenomenon Sapiens envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the...

The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator.

On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevan...

Written by internationally renowned experts, the Fourth Edition provides a complete introduction to the research process making it the perfect hand-holder for any social science student starting a methods course or project.