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Looking at topics such as boot camps, the death penalty and parental responsibility, this is an important resource for students of criminology and related disciplines.

Looking at a range of features of policing, Police and Law Enforcement includes contentious topics such as accountability, arrest practices, entrapment, profiling, vigilantes and zero tolerance policing.

This text looks at key issues in the field such as DNA evidence, eyewitness accuracy and the jury system.

Bringing together work from experts in the field this text looks at key issues such as euthanasia, drug laws and terrorism and extremism.

Practical guidance for teachers to bring science alive for their students and help children engage with science in everyday life.

Security expert Kenneth S. Trump outlines school security issues and provides nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Includes a companion website.

Broad in scope and edited by two massive names in geography, this is a critical exploration of how the field has emerged and fared over the course of its modern institutionalization.

Helping the reader to make research decisions, this text is an introductory guide to the basics of sampling.

A timely and definitive intellectual map of a key emerging discipline, the SAGE Handbook of Corporate Governance critically overviews the key themes, theoretical controversies, current research and emerging concepts that frame the field.

This cutting-edge collection features the works of recognized pioneers in educational neuroscience and shows how to apply current brain research to teaching and learning.

Focusing on empirical research, this is an engaging and critical guide through each step of the research process, outlining the procedures, differences, strengths and limitations of metric, interpretive and the newer hybrid approaches.

Advises teachers how to avoid simply becoming a mirror image of the teachers who taught them and to embrace their own vision as well as showing principals how to build up teacher leaders under them. Covers subjects of collaboration, building capacity, teacher development, and reflection from the leader's perspective.

Revised and updated edition of this student introduction to the sociology of work and occupations. Adopted in business and management departments as well as sociology.

In The Human Behaviour Theory, the authors use a critical thinking approach to engage students to think in depth about theory and its use in social work practice. With a strong focus on diversity, this book expands its theory coverage to include progressive and the most cutting-edge contemporary thinking.

Designed to meet the needs of public health students, practitioners, and researchers, this Second Edition offers a firm grounding in qualitative and mixed methods, including their social science roots and public health applications.

An accessible introduction to statistics written specifically for education students in the changing educational landscape.

Developed in partnership with the International Political Science Association this must-have, authoritative political science resource, in eight volumes, provides a definitive picture of all aspects of political life.

How have African Americans voted over time? What types of candidates and issues have been effective in drawing people to vote? These are just two of the questions that The African American Electorate answers by bringing together all of the extant, fugitive and recently discovered registration data on African-American voters from Colonial America to the present.

A detailed, imaginative approach to five key social theorists who have helped to shape modern thought. Robbins is a world class expert and his book represents a significant development in the field of french social theory.

In this concise introduction to international law, students gain a clear appreciation for how politics shapes the development of international law, and how international law shapes political relations between states. Throughout the book, Rochester takes this complex subject and makes it accessible with his vibrant, easy-to-read prose.

Offering a data-based examination of whether minority citizens in the U.S. differ from members of the white majority in their political behaviour, this is an ideal critical text for those studying U.S. or comparative politics.

Bestselling author Frank Crowther makes a compelling case for capacity building and parallel leadership as the keys to ensuring sustainable improvement. Research-based with tools and examples.

The first reference resource to bring both sports management and sports marketing all together in one place.

A comprehensive anthology of excerpts from original works of sociological theory.

Explores the Obama era - the confluence of the political, technological, social, economic, and religious dimensions of Obama's campaign, election, and presidency. This title deals with the complexities of the Obama phenomenon from critical research perspective, marking the era as a transformation brought about by a transitional leader.

This hands-on guide takes you through a proven process for implementing the new Common Core State Standards and includes access to Internet-based software for curriculum mapping.

In a unique contributed volume that features chapters written by top scholars paired with practitioner responses, students can see just how much the landscape of intergovernmental relations has evolved in recent years, with diminishing vertical flows of resources, and increased horizontal flows in the form of cross-jurisdictional and interlocal collaboration.

Teachers will find an instructional and assessment framework for helping ELLS excel. Includes an array of strategies for teaching functional, content-area, technological, and innovative literacy.

This book provides a wealth of practical literacy strategiestailored for adolescents who have had interrupted formal education or come fromnewly arrived immigrant populations.

Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective this book offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which a batterer's abusive and controlling behaviors are woven into the fabric of daily life.