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  • Crime in the Art and Antiquities World

    Illegal Trafficking in Cultural Property

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The theft, trafficking, and falsification of cultural property and cultural heritage objects are crimes of a particularly complex nature, which often have international ramifications and significant economic consequences. Organized criminal groups of various types and origins are involved in these illegal acts.The book Crime in the Art and Antiquities World has contributions both from researchers ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This handbook showcases studies on art theft, fraud and forgeries, cultural heritage offences and related legal and ethical challenges. It has been authored by prominent scholars, practitioners and journalists in the field and includes both overviews of particular art crime issues as well as regional and national case studies. It is one of the first scholarly books in the current art crime ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime

    Australasian, European and North American Perspectives

    In the world of law enforcement art and antiquity crime has in the past usually assumed a place of low interest and priority. That situation has now slowly begun to change on both the local and international level as criminals, encouraged in part by the record sums now being paid for art treasures, are now seeking to exploit the art market more systematically by means of theft, fraud and looting. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Policing and the Mentally Ill

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Duncan Chappell ...
    Series series Advances in Police Theory and Practice
    Police departments in many parts of the world have set up specific programs with crisis intervention teams to facilitate police contact with the mentally ill. Focusing chiefly on jurisdictions in Australia, this volume also examines several of these programs in North America, Europe, and parts of the developing world. The 16 chapters in this book offer a wide range of cross-cultural perspectives ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

    Global Challenges

    Edited by Duncan Chappell ...
    Series series Police Practice and Research
    According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental disorder, or as is more commonly termed in popular parlance a mental illness, are likely to come into ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Effective Safeguarding for Children and Young People

    What next after Munro?

    The number of children entering the child protection system has risen dramatically in the last three years with implications for children's services and partner agencies. This timely volume takes a critical look at the impact of the Munro Review (2011) on child protection and the Government's response. It looks at questions including how effective Local Safeguarding Children Boards are in ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Social Work Practice: A Handbook For Students

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  • Introducing Special Educational Needs

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  • Working with Vulnerable Adults

    Series series The Social Work Skills Series
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  • Antiquities

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art historian ... Read more

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