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 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

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.

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.

For courses in Introductory Sociology Sociology empowers students to see the world around them through a sociological lens, helping them better understand their own lives and the world we all share. John Macionis, author of the best-selling Introductory Sociology franchise over the last three decades, takes students step by step through the theories and research that make up the discipline, helping them to find and use the science of social behavior in everyday life. In addition to extensivel...

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...

This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process. It not only addresses how to implement skills, but also why they are being implemented.

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.

In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvati...