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Guns 360 takes a comprehensive and common-sense approach to some of the most difficult issues facing not only the crimin......more
This book looks into the processes sustaining the administrative reform in Chinese local government and the roles of dif......more
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The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the crimina......more
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Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of foo......more
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Neighbourhood policing has been called the ’cornerstone of British policing’ but changing demand, pressures on funding a......more
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This book provides a picture of recent developments in social policy and social work in Central and Southeast Europe, es......more
This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, an......more
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In Nigeria, armed banditry has emerged as a contemporary threat to national security. Commentators and scholars have rep......more
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Chiu and Law identify and examine important issues of healthy ageing after COVID-19 from research and policy perspective......more
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In this book, nationally recognized public procurement experts Dolores Kuchina-Musina and Benjamin McMartin present a co......more
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Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their politi......more
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