This book is a guide for students progressing through field work to help them review key skills and reinforce their field learning experience.

Featuring thirty-one new articles by experts in the field, this dynamic forensic psychology reader emphasizes the ways that forensic psychologists apply psychological knowledge, concepts, and principles on a day-to-day basis.

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

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]

Guides social work and social care students through working with disabled people. Unique in its aspirational, outcomes-focused approach.

Best-selling text on direct practice learning for degree students

A lively and timely overview of a modern preoccupation