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  • Criminal Justice in Scotland

    by Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson, Katrina Morrison ...
    Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges and critical issues facing Scottish criminal justice today.Highly attentive to procedural and institutional detail, this book is underpinned by a ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • As Easy As Pi

    Stuff about numbers that isn't (just) maths

    by Jamie Buchan ...
    Series Book 11 - I Used to Know That
    It's hard to imagine a world without numbers in this day and age, when our whole life is centered around commerce and money, and it is the only language that is the same the world over. However, did you know that for a long period of time people could not get their heads around the idea of zero, a figure representing nothing, and that it was even regarded as heretical in some circles? As Easy As ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Unfinished Business

    Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland

    by Joe Moran ...
    With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $12.37 CAD

  • Education in Scotland

    Policy and Practice from Pre-School to Secondary

    Edited by Margaret M Clark, Pamela Munn ...
    Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not recognised as different by writers who talk about ... Read more

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  • Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Nigel Parton, Anne Stafford, Sharon Vincent, Connie Smith ...
    Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice.This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And Future

    by Peter Baldock ...
    Assisting readers to understand how early years services have been transformed and to evaluate that process and to prepare for the future. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Adult Social Care

    Edited by Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Criminal Justice

    Edited by Jamie Harding, Pamela Davies, George Mair ...
    A contemporary guide to the criminal justice process, the broad scope of this book means it will be a trusted companion throughout a Criminology and/or Criminal Justice degree.The contents of An Introduction to Criminal Justice include:23 chapters spanning all that’s involved with, and fully contextualising, the criminal justice process: the agencies, institutions and processes and procedures that ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Understanding Crime and Social Policy

    by Emma Wincup ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    Understanding crime and social policy explores the interface between crime and social policy, drawing upon international theoretical developments and empirical research from within Criminology and Social Policy. Written by an experienced author, it uses analysis of policy-making under the New Labour and Conservative-Liberal Democrat governments to reflect upon the multiplicity of influences which ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Policy Making Process in the Criminal Justice System

    by Adrian Barton, Nick Johns ...
    How the state ‘deals with’ crime and criminality is a major issue for all students of criminology and criminal justice. This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system of England and Wales by presenting a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practise with contemporary policy examples.The key features of this text ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Criminal Justice in Transition

    The Northern Ireland Context

    Edited by Dr Anne-Marie McAlinden, Dr Clare Dwyer ...
    This book represents a critical examination of key aspects of crime and criminal justice in Northern Ireland which will have resonance elsewhere. It considers the core aspects of criminal justice policy-making in Northern Ireland which are central to the process of post-conflict transition, including reform of policing, judicial decision-making and correctional services such as probation and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD