The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing.

Understanding Homicide is a valuable resource for students studying homicide, violence, its investigation and responses to it, as well as researchers and practitioners interested in homicide and violence.

A practical and accessible guide to the Verbal and Numerical Reasoning Exercises within the Police Recruit Assessment Process.

This textbook will help students, practitioners and academics think critically about the relationship between policy and practice. Reflective questions help critical thinking and links to websites of substantive information across the UK and internationally help keep readers up-to-date with policy developments.

An authoritative introduction to key issues in the area of crime as it connects to society.

An essential guide on effective supervision for managers and their staff.

A beginner's guide to critical thinking and learning for social work

This timely and contemporary book exposes readers to a range of restorative practices that can be implemented.

This is one of the few books on the treatment of psychological trauma in children that provides in-depth individual, group, and family therapy interventions for complex psychological trauma.

This book examines the fundamental theoretical perspectives of the aging process with an emphasis on the healthy aspects of aging.