Social Work and Social Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Distinguishing Clinical from Upper Level Management in Social Work

   Edited by Marvin D. Feit, Michael J. Holosko

   Over the past few decades, as administrative and technological complexity has increased, so has the role and importance of administrative practice in social work. For those making the switch from front-line practice to administration and management there is, therefore, a real need to prepare and...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Civil Society and Participatory Governance

   Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

   By Maureen M. Donaghy

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Trafficked Young People

   Breaking the Wall of Silence

   By Jenny J. Pearce, Patricia Hynes, Silvie Bovarnick

   Series: Adolescence and Society

   Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Contemporary Drug Policy

   By Henry Brownstein

   Series: New Directions in Critical Criminology

   This book focuses on the use of drugs in our lives and how we respond to them. Whereas drug policy typically centres on the problems of illicit drugs or licit drugs used in illicit ways or circumstances, Contemporary Drug Policy instead considers the wide variety of substances we call drugs as a...

   Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. The Essence of Play

   A Practice Companion for Professionals Working with Children and Young People

   By Justine Howard, Karen McInnes

   A unique companion to professional play practice! All play professionals are united in their belief that play is important for children’s development – and there are inherent characteristics of play that underpin professional play practice across contexts. Providing an overarching concept of play,...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Bullying

   Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

   Edited by Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   Bullying: Experiences and Discourses of Sexuality and Gender provides a valuable insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Out of the Mainstream: Helping the children of parents with a mental illness

   Edited by Rosemary Loshak

   Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. With chapters from professionals working primarily with children or adults, in different agencies and...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India

   Edited by Padma Bhate-Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege, Padma Prakash

   Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
9. Urban Poverty in the Global South

   Scale and Nature

   By Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite

   One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Criminal Justice

    An Introduction, 2nd Edition

    By Peter Joyce

    This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge