A comprehensive and up-to-date new undergraduate text on the application and impact of psychology on modern policing.

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.

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

The child is placed at the heart of the text and it includes substantial chapters examining key pieces of legislation, law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice and help students gain confidence whilst on placements.

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.