Taylor & Francis India: Social Work Policy

Edited by Noel Timms

Originally published in 1973, The Receiving End looks at the British welfare services for deprived children. The book is comprised of essays from individuals that have been on the receiving end of the social help agencies, such as adoption societies, fostering agencies and children’s homes. Each…

Paperback – 2020-04-30 
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Routledge Revivals: Noel Timms

By Marla Berg-Weger, Deborah Adams

The fifth edition of The Practice of Generalist Social Work expands its foundational and integrative coverage of social work values, ethics, competencies, and behaviors as they relate and function within diverse practice settings. Through a strengths-based perspective, students are given a…

Paperback – 2020-04-08 
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New Directions in Social Work

By John A. Schofield

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning. The theory of CBA is developed with examples to illustrate the principles, it also deals with details of…

Paperback – 2020-03-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning

By Rosemary Kennedy Chapin, Melinda Kay Lewis

The fifth edition of Social Policy for Effective Practice offers a rich variety of resources and knowledge foundations to help social work students understand and contend with the continually evolving social policy landscape that surrounds them. The authors have continued their traditional…

Paperback – 2020-03-23 
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New Directions in Social Work

By Teela Sanders, Barbara G. Brents, Chris Wakefield

Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet. The data is drawn from two large…

Paperback – 2020-03-12 
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Edited by Jin Huang, Li Zhou, Michael Sherraden

Inclusive Child Development Accounts showcases the global context of emerging asset-building policies and programmes around Child Development Accounts. Child Development Accounts, (CDAs), are subsidized accounts that enable families to accumulate assets to invest in children’s development and…

Hardback – 2020-03-09 
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By Hugh W Mellor

Originally published in 1985 The Role of Voluntary Organisations in Social Welfare considers the voluntary sector as a provider of social welfare. The book asks the fundamental questions for those involved in social welfare: what should the role of this voluntary sector be, and what should its…

Paperback – 2020-01-15 
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Routledge Library Editions: Welfare and the State

Edited by Luann Good Gingrich, Stefan Köngeter

Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalization of economies, labour markets, education, social services, and care. The contributions of this book provide unique case examples on the interplay of…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

The main objective of the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is twofold: (1) to provide original chapters that cover contemporary critical criminological theoretical offerings generated over the past five years and (2) to provide chapters on important new substantive…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Sonja Blum, Johanna Kuhlmann, Klaus Schubert

Published ten years after the first edition, this new Handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all 28 EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research. Additional chapters…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Pamela Ugwudike, Hannah Graham, Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor, Faye S. Taxman, Chris Trotter

All the world’s criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences. Typically, this is organized in penal and correctional services – in custody in prisons, or in the community, supervised…

Paperback – 2019-09-17
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By Jonathan Wolff

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry, second edition subjects important and controversial areas of public policy to philosophical scrutiny. Jonathan Wolff, a renowned philosopher and veteran of many public committees, introduces and assesses core problems and controversies in public…

Paperback – 2019-08-19
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