Summer 2005 and a week that London will never forget...Fuelled by workplace adrenaline, a young woman steps onto a central London street and heads for a rare early evening at home with her family.Moments later, she lies dying in a quiet lane as three hooded attackers escape into the heavy rush hour traffic.DCI Colm Elliot heads the investigation, the victim known to him from a previous case that had triggered a baffling series of events and threatened to destroy the l...

Summer 2005 and a week that London will never forget… Pumped by workplace adrenaline, a young woman steps onto a central London street and heads for a rare early evening at home with her family. Moments later, she lies dying in a quiet lane as three hooded attackers escape into the heavy rush hour traffic. DCI Colm Elliot heads the investigation, the victim known to him from a previous case that had triggered a baffling series of events and threatened to destroy the lives and loves of many...

It is the Autumn of 1981 and British Prime Minister, following the ending of the Maze Prison Hunger Strike, finds her Cabinet facing a new and more dangerous threat from an Irish Republican splinter group demanding the unification of Ireland. As she and her government prepare for the State Opening of Parliament, to be attended by the Royal Family including Prince Charles and his new bride Princess Diana, there ensues a frantic race against time to stop a team of international assassins fro...

Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America. Today, they are spreading all over the world, including the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. My Brother's Keeper is the first major study of a global phenomenon.Exploring the roots of faith-based units in South America, it explains why the Prison Service of England and Wales set up the first Christian-based unit in the western world in 1997 - and its rapid expansion. It also explains...

Most spiders are content, spinning their webs and living their lives doing spidery things without thinking about much else, and as such their stories are simple and rarely told. However, there are some little spiders who look for adventure. This story takes us into the world of a little clan of tiny spiders who sing their songs of adventure, and one tiny spider in particular, who rolls into a little ball every time a new adventure appears. Until this time, where he finds himself in his own...

Twenty-one of Australia's most startling real-life crimes, from the late 1800s to the present day are collected here in one gripping volume. Using exhaustive research, court records, police statements and original interviews, Larry Writer offers fascinating new insights into the lives of some of Australia's most notorious villains and their victims.

This new edition of the Handbook of Policing updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive, but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point, combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves.

This insightful book is ideal for students, researchers and policy makers wanting a sound overview of the critical issues of gender in lifelong learning. Asking pertinent questions relating to discourses on policy, the authors offer the reader a rare view of lifelong learning from a gender-focused perspective, filling a gap in the literature and moving current debate on into new areas. Questions addressed include:To what extent can the policy discourses and institutional cont...

A mysterious suicide and double murder are at the heart of this powerful thriller set in Northern Ireland amidst the Troubles, from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty“McKinty is in full command of language, plot, and setting in a terrifying period of history…” —Library Journal (starred review)Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant R...

Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading subject authors.- Develop knowledge and understanding of key Year 2 concepts in...

This valuable textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management, exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work lecturers, the chapters cover topics such as planning, evaluation and supervision, whilst acknowledging the changing structures of integrated services and the impact of public service reform.Divided into three sections, it covers:Historical and theoretical context...

This book is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the field of gender and crime, re-thinking the key themes and debates within a human rights framework.Integrating empirical, theoretical and policy-related material, this Second Editionhas been significantly updated, and now includes;Full consideration of the 2010-2015 Coalition Government and its effect on gender and crime within England and WalesA new chapter relating crimi...