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Cover of Liz Tilly: Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context

Liz Tilly: Health and Social Care Research Methods in Context

This is the first textbook to show how research using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods relates to improving health and social care practice. The book shows how different research app …

Cover of Roy D. (Roy King is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Cambridge Institute of Criminology .) King & Lucy (Lucy Willmott works at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.) Willmott: Honest Politician s Guide to Prisons and Probation (

Roy D. (Roy King is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Cambridge Institute of Criminology .) King & Lucy (Lucy Willmott works at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.) Willmott: Honest Politician s Guide to Prisons and Probation (

Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician s Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative …

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Deirdre Horgan & Danielle Kennan: Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research

This book showcases rights based participatory approaches to policy-making, practice and research with children and youth. Throughout its three parts, the book conceptualises a rights-based partici …

Cover of Tracey Ryan-Morgan: Concise Guide to the Mental Capacity Act

Tracey Ryan-Morgan: Concise Guide to the Mental Capacity Act

This book provides a clear introduction to the Mental Capacity Act (MCA, 2005), offering an easy reference guide to the complex issues enshrined within the Act to inform the everyday practice of …

Cover of Miia (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Huttunen: Politicised Cinema

Miia (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Huttunen: Politicised Cinema

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an …

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Evelyn Rose: Domestic Violence as State Crime

Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed. Underpinned by a radical feminist perspective, the central argument of …

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Damien Ng: Currency Wars with China and Japan in Western Newsmagazines

This book explores China s currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, L Express, and Der Spiegel. Based on both quantitative and qualitative …

Cover of Shane S Bush & Scotia J. Hicks: Forensic Mental Health Assessment in Criminal Contexts

Shane S Bush & Scotia J. Hicks: Forensic Mental Health Assessment in Criminal Contexts

This valuable compendium advances the understanding of mental health case law, making it highly accessible to practicing forensic professionals. Divided into two parts, the first section focuses on …

Cover of Cort W. Rudolph & Hannes Zacher: Age and Work

Cort W. Rudolph & Hannes Zacher: Age and Work

The edited volume Age and Work: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice presents a systematic collection of key advances in theory, methods, and practice regarding age(ing) and work. This …

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Andjelka Hedrih & Vladimir Hedrih: Interpreting Statistics for Beginners

Interpreting Statistics for Beginners teaches readers to correctly read and interpret results of basic statistical procedures as they are presented in scientific literature, and to understand what …