Evidence-Based Crime Prevention

Edited by David Farrington, Doris Layton MacKenzie, Lawrence Sherman, Brandon C. Welsh

Crime prevention policy and practice is often far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is sometimes driven by...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40102-9 (Routledge)

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News Media and Power in Russia

By Olessia Koltsova

The end of communist rule in the Soviet Union brought with it a brave new world of media and commerce. Formerly state-owned enterprises were transformed,...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34515-6 (Routledge)

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The Lives of Foster Carers

Private Sacrifices, Public Restrictions

By Linda Nutt

The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35812-5 (Routledge)

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Global Youth?

Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds

Edited by Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa

This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37071-4 (Routledge)

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The New NHS

A Guide

By Alison Talbot-Smith, Allyson M. Pollock

Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32841-8 (Routledge)

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Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights Into the Mainstream

Twenty Years of Progress

By Vicki Eaklor, Robert R. Meek, Vern L. Bullough

A lively memoir of LGBT activist Steve Endean—one of the most influential political strategists ever to lobby Washington DC!

Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights...

2006 | Paperback: 978-1-56023-526-2 (Routledge)

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Plural Policing

A Comparative Perspective

Edited by Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn

Policing is changing rapidly and radically. An increasingly complex array of public, private and municipal bodies - as well as public police forces - are...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35511-7 (Routledge)

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Civic Engagement and the Baby Boomer Generation

Research, Policy, and Practice Perspectives

By Laura Wilson

Discover a vital source of volunteers for your organization

By the year 2020, there will be 65 million people aged 65 and over living...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-7890-0578-6 (Routledge)

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German Migrants in Post-War Britain

An Enemy Embrace

By Dr Inge Weber-Newth, Johannes-Dieter Steinert

Both timely and topical, with 2005 marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this unique book examines the little-known and...

2006 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5657-1 (Routledge)

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Spaces of Social Exclusion

By Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Andrew McCulloch

To varying extents in developed countries a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. Britain’s Labour government in particular has sought to deal with this...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28089-1 (Routledge)

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