Family, Child & Social Welfare Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Test Security

   Edited by James A. Wollack, John J. Fremer

   High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence

   The Effectiveness of International Human Rights Law

   By Ronagh J.A. McQuigg

   Series: Routledge Research in Human Rights Law

   This innovative book examines the effectiveness of international human rights law, through the case study of domestic violence. Domestic violence is an issue that affects vast numbers of women throughout all nations of the world, but as it takes place between private individuals it does not come...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Q&A Family Law 2013-2014

   7th Edition

   By Rachael Stretch

   Series: Questions and Answers

   Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation. Each book contains up to fifty essay and problem-based questions on the most commonly examined topics, complete with expert guidance and...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Bioethics

   Methods, Theories, Domains

   By Marcus Düwell

   Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library

   This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Organised Sexual Abuse

   By Michael Salter

   Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Social Work, Law and Ethics

   By Jonathan Dickens

   Series: Student Social Work

   Law and ethics are two vital aspects of social work – all social workers need to practise according to the law and their codes of ethics and conduct. However, the relationship between the law and social work values and ethics is not without its tensions and this book takes a problem-based approach...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Children with Gender Identity Disorder

   A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis

   By Simona Giordano

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few...

   Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Ties That Bind (Routledge Revivals)

   Law, Marriage and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Relations

   By Carol Smart

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1984, this book made an important and timely contribution to the development of the idea that the law is a major source of women’s oppression. Based on research of the theory and practice of family law, it examines the way in which private law operates to sustain, reproduce and...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Family Law Statutes 2012-2013

   4th Edition

   By Phil Bates

   Series: Routledge Student Statutes

   ‘Focused content, layout and price - Routledge competes and wins in relation to all of these factors’ - Craig Lind, University of Sussex, UK ‘The best value and best format books on the market.’ - Ed Bates, Southampton University, UK Routledge Student Statutes present all the...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Migration, Family and the Welfare State

    Integrating Migrants and Refugees in Scandinavia

    Edited by Karen Fog Olwig, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Mikkel Rytter

    Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies. Chapters examine discourses, policies and programs of integration in the...

    Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge