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

Suitable for second year undergraduate students, this book synthesizes important 'theoretical' concerns with the practicalities of youth work through effective use of activities and case studies.

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.

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

Transnational Organized Crime: An Overview from Six Continents explores the expansive topic of transnational organized crime, incorporating expert perspectives found throughout the world's six inhabited continents: North America, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Revised edition of the authors' Gangs in America's communities, [2016]

Best-selling text on direct practice learning for degree students

A lively and timely overview of a modern preoccupation