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  • Understanding and Preventing ‘Cuckooing’ Victimisation

    County Lines and Beyond

    Series series Drugs, Crime and Society
    Providing a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the phenomenon of cuckooing, this volume is a timely insight into this longstanding practice whereby individuals or groups take over a person’s home and use the property to facilitate exploitation.Adopting a variety of methodological approaches and empirical data, this collection brings together the existing research base on cuckooing ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bringing Criminological Theory to Life

    A Lived Experience Approach to Crime and Desistance

    Taking a unique approach to bring the theories of desistance and of development criminology to life, the chapters in this book are framed around a single individual’s life-story which have inspired rigorous, evidence-based and scholarly chapters on key issues in criminology.Breaking fresh ground, Bringing Criminological Theory to Life chronicles the case study of the rich and fascinating life of ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Demystifying Modern Slavery

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Who are the perpetrators of modern slavery? Why do they exploit others? What might be done to stop exploitation recurring? These are the questions answered in this book. Reporting on the first primary study of modern slavery offenders, the book depicts the findings of in-depth interviews with people accused of, and convicted for, committing modern slavery offences. The different forms that modern ... Read more

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    Series series Open Media Series
    With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Invisible Chains

    Canada's Underground World Of Human Trafficking

    Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community.The global problem of human ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Politics of Disability

    A Need for a Just Society Inclusive of People with Disabilities

    We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that "there is no alternative" to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Modern Day Slaves

    Modern Day Slaves is all about slaves around the world that exist today, often hidden from view, living a life of hell. This book will open your eyes to child slaves, prostitution, child soldiers, human trafficking, sweatshops and more. It makes interesting reading and will open your mind to a world that isn't as perfect as you thought it was. We live in the 21st Century, but after this book you ... Read more

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  • The War on Disabled People

    Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe

    Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Contemporary Social Work Practice: A Handbook For Students

    by Barbra Teater ...
    An introduction to the diverse settings of social work, detailing the relevant policy context, methods and approaches. ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Mental Health

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    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social workers have often been excluded from these initiatives and the dominant approach within mental ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Police in Canada

    The Real Story

    by John Sewell ...
    What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance of police to independent civilian oversight have created the impression of organizations and ... Read more

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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

    $28.79 USD