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.

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.

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).

In this handbook, editors Philip Reichel and Jay Albanese bring together renowned scholars from around the world to offer various perspectives providing global coverage of the increasingly transnational nature of crime and the attempts to provide co-operative cross-national responses.

One of the first contemporary works to bring together research focused on community corrections officers, Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry, by Faith E. Lutze, helps readers understand the importance of community corrections officers to the success of the criminal justice system.

Provides students with a snapshot of a particular theory/approach, the major thinkers associated with each theory, application to a single case study, and critical thinking and application questions to help students internalize the content presented and apply it to their own development as a counselor.

Comprising theories from the various schools of thought classified as psychoanalytic, this book covers the historical development, theory, process, evaluation and application of the various methods falling under this approach. Using a common factors approach, this book will help counselors-in-training consider theories from the perspective of the client, and what makes sense to him/her.

Using case studies, activities and research summaries, this accessible guide to child and family social work will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to practice with confidence.

Using case studies, reflective questions and checklists for practice, this hands-on guide will provide busy social workers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively and confidently make a difference to the lives of children and young people.