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Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation of the Welsh criminal justice system a system that presides over some of the worst criminal justice outcomes in western Europe.

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From a renowned activist and author, a powerful expose of how the tipping system has been used to exploit immigrant workers.

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A fascinating examination of those political problems that never get solved.

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A collaboration between a National Book Award winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe

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In response to the conservative backlash against Vatican II liberal american catholics have rallied to defend its content.

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In the eloquent tradition of Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, an award-winning leader in the movement to end mass incarceration takes on the vital problem of violent crime.

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Violent Order explores the everyday practices of police and policing as modes of violence in the fabrication of social order.

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Shows how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. This book describes how weak-form review works in Great Britain and Canada and discusses the extent to which legislatures can be expected to enforce constitutional norms on their own.

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Geoghegan explains the appeal of "boring" Germany, where workers sit as directors on the big corporate boards and ordinary people have six weeks off and retire with pensions like golden parachutes. Free public goods, a bit of worker control, and whopping trade surpluses . . . the German version of "European socialism" doesn't sound too bad.

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Provides a clear and accessible guide to the major components of Australia's anti-terrorism laws and their effects. Shows what constitutes a crime of terrorism in Australia, and what happens when the authorities seek a control order or an order of preventative detention over an individual.

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Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

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It has been suggested that policy analysis has come to serve the needs of the state at the expense of the citizens. This book offers a critique of how welfare policy is analyzed and set in the USA, illustrating that how we study issues affects what ultimately gets done about them.

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Former US Army Ranger walks across America for a fallen comrade and finds his voice as a war resister.

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This thematic and historical overview provides a guide to key welfare practices and developments in the public, private, voluntary and informal welfare sectors in twentieth-century Britain, outlining the dominant ideas about welfare in the period in question.

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The book argues that care management could create changes in the operation of British social services departments, but that it also embodies the values of the social work profession. It explores how the job of the front line social worker and line manager in social service departments might be changed by the implementation of care management.

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This book provides a critical account of British social policy since 1945 from the perspective of the child. Using the UN convention on the Rights of the Child as a yardstick, it examines a range of policy areas including health, education, housing, social security, child care and protection.

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The articles are organised into four sections - Community, Care, Policy and Practice - and cover autobiographical and experiential accounts as well as writings drawn from sociology, psychology, social policy, history, social work and community activism.