Women, Crime, and Justice: Core Concepts, provides a complete and concise view gendered issues and the connection to the criminal justice, including victimization, criminalization, and work within the system.

An Introduction to Political and Social Data Analysis (With R) provides students with an accessible overview of practical data analysis while also providing a gentle introduction to the R programming environment. Author Thomas M. Holbrook patiently explains each step in statistical analysis with R, avoiding complicated tools or packages.

Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond. A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban plann...

This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity have always been rooted in the sociopolitical conditions in which they arose and exploring them in context helps students understand how and why they evolv...

How do we know if racism really exists? And, if it does, how big a problem is it for the outcomes of people of colour? Only science has the answers to some of societys most pressing questions.

Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach by Elsie Jones-Smith is for the theories of counseling and psychotherapy course at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This Third Edition, offers an extensive array of theories that includes all the mainstream theories as well as such contemporary approaches as narrative, feminist, LGBT, and post-modern . It offers students an integrative framework with which to assess the various theories with respect to possible clinic...

Encouraging readers to take a critical approach to empirical data, the authors provide an account that helps social science researchers to develop new and interesting theories.

Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will enable both supervisors and supervisees to get the best they can from the supervisory experience.

The belief that change occurs during the therapeutic process is central to all counselling and psychotherapy. This volume examines how change can be facilitated by the counsellor embodying certain therapeutic qualities - in particular empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.