Social Welfare & Social Work

Forensics in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia: Third International ICST Conference, e-Forensics…

by Lai, Xuejia, Lai, Xuejia, International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia, Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia

fromLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Socia…

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia, E-Forensics 2010, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2010. The 32 rev…

Emerging Risks in the 21st Century: an Agenda for Action

by Publishing, OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

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The 21st Century has so far witnessed a host of large-scale disasters in various parts of the world including: windstorms, flooding, new diseases infesting both humans and animals, terrorist attacks and major disruptions to critical infrastructures. It is not just the nature of …

Tobacco and public health: science and policy

by Boyle, P., (Peter)

fromOUP E-Books

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This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco-related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. …

Fraudsters and Charlatans: a Peek at Some of History's Greatest Rogues

by Stratmann, Linda

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In 1817 a young woman of exotic appearance was found wandering near Bristol. She spoke in a language that no one could understand except, seemingly, a Portuguese sailor. He claimed that she was a Sumatran princess from the island of Javasu. Princess Caraboo, as she was known, be…

Violent fathering and the risks to children: the need for change

by Harne, Lynne

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Violent fathering and the risks to children examines fathers' perceptions of their domestic violence and its impact on children, their relationships with children and their parenting practices. It is the first UK book to specifically focus on violent fathering, discussing origin…

Secret partners: Big Tom Brown and the Barker gang

by Mahoney, Timothy

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Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows: Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their vio…

Explaining criminal careers: implications for justice policy

by Farrington, David P., MacLeod, John F., Grove, Peter G.

fromClarendon Studies in Criminology

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Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple but influential theory of crime, conviction and reconviction. The assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples extracted from the Home Office Offenders Index - a unique database which cont…

The sixteenth rail: the evidence, the scientist, and the Lindbergh ki…

by Schrager, Adam

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The Sherlock Holmes-like forensic scientist helped convict Bruno Hauptmann for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.

The Oxford handbook of suicide and self-injury

fromOxford library of psychology

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This handbook provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it.

Bibliometrics in Social Work

by Holden, Gary, Rosenberg, Gary, Barker, Kathleen

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Bibliometrics in Social Work examiness the cross-disciplinary field of bibliometrics, including the multiple techniques and applications that have been described in the scholarly literature. Moving beyond this general overview, the authors examine applications of bibliometrics i…

Sweet hell on fire: a memoir of the prison I worked in and the prison…

by Lunsford, Sara

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"A gritty, raw, and engrossing voice."--Publishers Weekly I was a bad mother, a bad daughter, a bad wife, a bad friend. Boozed out and tired, with no dreams and no future. But I was a good officer. Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex crim…

From Children's Services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood

by Moss, Peter, Petrie, Pat

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At the turn of the millennium, attitudes and actions towards children are increasingly contradictory and complex. This work explores these apparent contradictions and complexities through a critique of the concept of children's services.

Mental Health Social Work: Evidence-Based Practice

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In Mental Health Social Work, Colin Pritchard draws on his many years of experience in research, teaching and practice in order to explore key issues for social workers who want to work in the mental health field. Mental health social work can be one of the most rewarding and on…

Multicultural Aspects of Disabilities: a Guide to Understanding and Assisting Minorities…

by Byran, Willie V.

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This book is an effort to bring to the attention of helping professionals the need to give significant consideration to cultural factors in their efforts to develop effective rehabilitation plans for persons of color with disabilities. This book goes beyond increasing awareness …

Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the ""shadow mothers"" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both si…