This fourth edition introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating social work research and practice problems.

This first book in the Prevention Practice Kit overviews the prevention field and Kit contents, and highlights key points emerging through the historical evolution of prevention. It gives special attention to elements that are infused throughout all books: a systemic, ecological approach and community and multi-disciplinary collaboration.

This is a clear and engaging introduction for students involved with data analysis in criminology and across the social sciences.

Written to guide students through complex groupwork situations, this book explores the knowledge, skills and values required for groupwork practice.

With its topical focus and lucid style, this is a thoroughly international analysis of how terrorism and the war on terror is communicated through a variety of global media outlets. The editors and contributors are all very high profile in the field, and the content is both global and interdisciplinary.

The book is a thematic examination of crime prevention, covering core areas of race, youth, community, and globalisation. Written in an accessible style with a focus on pedagogy, this is a key text for undergraduates in criminology.

This excellent study skills book arms social work students with all the essential knowledge they will need to succeed in qualifying and becoming a practitioner

Two of the world's leading experts explore the connections between crime and economic conditions, covering a range of theoretical and empirical approaches, in a lively and readable manner.

An agenda-setting and topical textbook that looks at how ICTs have become an important part of social work and how they can improve and affect practice

This accessible, comprehensive and up to date book looks at the reality of social work in practice. It will be essential reading for all social work students.