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Fighting Crime Together
University of NSW Press 2006; US$ 41.95Whether they want to or not, police are increasingly having to work with and through many local, national and international partnerships. This edited collection explores the development of policing and security networks. It looks at ways in which police can develop new strategies for integrating the knowledge, capacities and resources of different... more...
Valuess and Practices in Children's Services
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 34.95Values and their application are a continuing area of concern for those involved in work with children and families. This volume provides a means of understanding models of social welfare and children's services, and relating these to the challenges of practice. more...
Children, Families and Communities
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 203.00Draws on the work of Sheffield Children's Centre, a community cooperative which is recognized worldwide for its approach and models of good practice that have emerged from community participation. This book explores the challenges and celebrations of working with a range of children, families and communities both in the UK and internationally. more...
A Slaying in the Suburbs
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 7.99The true story of the Tara Grant murder. To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in... more...
The Informal Economy and Its Links to Organised Crime
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book covers a variety of topics that are deliberately from different methodological perspectives, in order to illustrate the need for multidisciplinarity to show both the extent of the informal and criminal economies and their links to geographical and social context. The papers in this e-book reveal new theoretical insights on this rather unresearched... more...
Invisible Darkness
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 7.99Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts. To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class... more...
Offending Behaviour
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the relationship between psychology, moral reasoning theory and offending behaviour. It sets out the theory and research which has been carried out in the field, and examines the ways in which this knowledge has been used in practice to inform treatment programmes for offenders. This book... more...
Cautiva (Captive)
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 14.00En este desgarrador relato, Clara revela en detalle el dolor de dar a luz en medio de la selva en manos de un enfermero que antes sólo había atendido a animales, el cansancio de largas caminatas de hasta ocho horas a través de la selva, el miedo de no saber si terminaría viva al final del día, y su amistad con Íngrid... more...
Not Lost Forever
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 7.99Not Lost Forever is Carmina Salcido?s remarkable story of survival and healing following the 1986 murderous rampage by her father, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido in the wine country of Sonoma Valley, California. Left for dead at three years old?her throat brutally slashed?Carmina miraculously survived what is widely considered one of California?s... more...
The Search for Crime Money
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This e-book brings together the perspectives of financial firms, law enforcement agencies and academics on the issues facing authorities tackling criminal financial activity in Europe. Areas covered include looking at the costs and effectiveness of implementing anti-money laundering regulations, the threat of anti-money laundering actions to organised... more...









