Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organise the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we all need?

This must-have handbook will help social work and social care managers and students to understand and accomplish the core skills needed for excellent management practice.

SPECIAL ORDER LINE. NON RETURNABLE.

This updated edition of An Introduction to Irish Family Law reflects recent significant changes and developments in family law in Ireland. REPRINTING IN OCTOBER

The book examines abuse (not clerical or institutional abuse). It explores boundaries and how abuse is an invasion of boundaries. It explores physical, emotional, verbal, sexual and financial abuse.

What lessons can we learn from the developing world? What is it like to live on less than €2 a day and what could the future hold for a child born in the developing world today?

Presenting some ground-breaking ideas, this book prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about and understand male intimate abuse and violence.

It should provide a key text for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates and postgraduates in social policy and related subjects, as well as their teachers.

Published in association with Save the ChildrenPriscilla Alderson examines the often overlooked issue of the rights of young children, starting with the question of how the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to the youngest children, from birth to eight years of age.

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana.