"An Altar on the Village Green enthralled me from the start. This is an amazing debut . . . one of my favorite reads this year."- Clayton W Snyder"If one suffers, I suffer. If one is chained, I am chained."My faith called me to become a Lance. My compassion drew me into one of the fallen lands. Through my connection with the Chained God, I alone can find and destroy the Horror that stains the land.Death can no longer chain me.But I couldn't have imag...

Unleashing the Power Within is a comprehensive guidebook designed to help men take control of their mental health and personal growth. It offers practical strategies and tools for overcoming common challenges such as self-doubt, fear, and burnout. The book covers topics such as mindfulness, positive thinking, building resilience, finding purpose, developing self-compassion, and building positive relationships. It also delves into more complex issues such as addiction, trauma, and resolving...

Multi-agency working continues to be a core focus in criminal justice and allied work, with the government investing significantly in training criminal justice professionals. This fully revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive text brings together probation, policing, prison, social work, criminological and organisational studies perspectives, and is an essential guide for students and practitioners in offender management and other managed care environments. The contributors prov...

Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.The guide outlines innovative projects developed to address the problem, and provides tailored guidance for professionals spanning education, health and social care, and criminal justice. It also offers recommendations for effective multi...

Since the publication of the first edition of 'Hate Crime' in 2005, interest in this subject as a scholarly and political domain has grown considerably both in Britain and North America, but significantly also in many other parts of the world. As such, this second edition fully revises and updates the content of the first, but within a broader international context.Building on the success of the first edition, this accessible, cross-disciplinary text also includes a wider range of ...

This edited collection brings together many of the world's leading experts, both academic and practitioner, in a single volume handbook that examines key international issues in the field of hate crime. Collectively it examines a range of pertinent areas with the ultimate aim of providing a detailed picture of the hate crime 'problem' in different parts of the world. The book is divided into four parts:An examination, covering theories and concepts, of issues relating to defi...

February 2009 marked the 10th Anniversary of the publication of the Inquiry into the events surrounding the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. This book marks this anniversary and examines various dimensions of the impact of Lawrence on policing policy and practice.It identifies a series of dimensions and processes associated with British policing in terms of the role that the Lawrence agenda has had on forming and/or shaping policy and practice in that particular are...