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Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice

  • Second Line Rescueby Barry Jean Ancelet; Marcia Gaudet; Carl Lindahl

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 87.50

    Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita chronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the official responders, vernacular rescuers found... more...

  • Policing and the Mentally Illby Duncan Chappell

    CRC Press 2013; US$ 99.95

    In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic and leads to a cycle of arrests and ultimately incarceration.... more...

  • Caponeby Laurence Bergreen

    Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 21.00

    In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving... more...

  • In Defense of Animalsby Peter Singer

    Wiley 2013; US$ 90.95

    Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal... more...

  • Everything Runs Like a Movieby John Cooper

    Dundurn 2013; US$ 9.99

    Desperate, Hermann Beier of Alliston, Ontario, turned to bank robbery in the early 1990s to pay his mounting bills and ended up being pursued in what became at the time the longest police chase in Canadian history. Gunned down in a hail of bullets, Beier lived to tell the tale and gain a chance to restart his life. more...

  • Thinking About Crimeby James Wilson

    Basic Books 2013; US$ 17.99

    As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument?that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers?and forever... more...

  • The Social Work Interviewby Alfred Kadushin; Goldie Kadushin

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 49.99

    For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition, the first in seven years, is thoroughly updated-revised, expanded, and reorganized for more thorough coverage and for more effective teaching... more...

  • The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Readerby James Cosgrave

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 55.95

    This reader contributes to the sociology of gambling, and offers a variety of sociological approaches, ranging from classical sociological analyses of gambling to contemporary sociological approaches to risk. more...

  • Public Criminology?by Ian Loader; Richard Sparks

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 52.95

    What is the role and value of criminology in a democratic society? How do, and how should, its practitioners engage with politics and public policy? How can criminology find a voice in an agitated, insecure and intensely mediated world in which crime and punishment loom large in government agendas and public discourse? What collective good do we want... more...

  • Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracyby Felia Allum; Renate Siebert

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union. more...