Social services & welfare, criminology

Bit of a Stretch, A: The Secret Diaries of a Prisoner [9781838950156]

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meeti…

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Handle with Care [9781913406035]

Health Visiting is one of those professions that most people think is a bit of a non-job. 'You just sit on sofas and drink tea, don't you? It's not l…

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The Heat of the Moment: A Firefighter's Stories of Life and Death Decisions [9780857525765]

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter for eighteen years. She decides which of her colleagues rush into a burning building and how they conf…

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Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point [9781472977885]

Almost everything we think about crime and punishment is wrong. I am going to show you why. And what we can do about it. Chris Daw QC has been practi…

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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World [9780008308346]

Based on scores of interviews and backed up by thousands of pages of documentation, Kleptopia is the riveting story of capitalism's monster - a global…

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The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang [9781846141669]

'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to becom…

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Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law [9781408899021]

Multi-million-dollar fraud. Terrorism. Mafia criminality. Russian espionage. For eight years Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern D…

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection) [9781846045745]

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** At 29, Anthony Ray Hinton was charged with robbery and murder, and sentences to death by electrocution. His only c…

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The Heat of the Moment: Life and Death Decision-Making From a Firefighter [9781784163884]

'One of the wonder women of our emergency services' Glamour 'Homeless as a teenager, Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has spent the last eighteen years dealing…

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Mafia Life: Love, Death and Money at the Heart of Organised Crime [9781781252543]

The Japanese Yakuza. The Chinese Triads. The Sicilian Cosa Nostra. The Calabrian N'Drangheta. The New York Mafia. The Russian Vory -v -Vakone. Today, …

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The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier [9781847925855]

The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There…

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Prison: A Survival Guide [9781529103496]

'Essential reading - Will SelfWhen Carl Cattermole was sentenced to spend time at Her Majesty's pleasure, he quickly learned that, in order to get by …

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Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state [9780349009094]

How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This excitin…

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The Official Illustrated History of RAF Search and Rescue [9781472960900]

In February 2016 the RAF's Search and Rescue Force (SARF) celebrated its 75th anniversary. In June that year the world-renowned and universally admire…

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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [9780141990910]

*The International Bestseller*'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are h…

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Bit of a Stretch, A: The Diaries of a Prisoner [9781838950170]

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow?Welcom…

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Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things [9780241960431]

'As enlightening about crime in modern society as any book I have read' The Times'A richly researched, supremely sane discussion of the causes of and …

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The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier [9781529111392]

'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN**New York Times Bestseller**The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly crim…

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Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa [9780141031187]

Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a chi…

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Human Trafficking: An Organised Crime? [9781787381285]

'Human trafficking' brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat…

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