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.

A user-friendly book that explores and reflects on effective practice in this key area of the social work curriculum, children and families.

Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship that made relevant to their needs as future practitioners in the field.

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.

A comprehensive introduction to all the key topics, criminological theories, and important themes that students will cover when studying criminology and criminal justice.

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

A lively and timely overview of a modern preoccupation

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