This book challenges existing myths about the international mafia and explores mafia mobility, emphasizing mafias' interconnectivity and ubiquity, while setting out the policy and practice implications for combatting organized crime.

This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate global inequalities and colonial legacies in their research and career-making. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork, it offers an empirical and practice-based approach to global asymmetries in academia.

This book explores the political economy of infrastructure financing in Indonesia, examining how Chinese and Japanese actors utilize diverse modes including Official Development Assistant (ODA), commercial loans, export credits, business-to-business (B-to-B) investments, and public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Drawing on rich empirical data and a mixed-methods approach, this book reveals how transnational dynamics have shaped the rise of Chinese philanthropy in an authoritarian context – and how, in turn, it is increasingly influencing the future of global philanthropy.

Despite its high public profile, little is known about child protection work. This textbook offers ethnographic and scholarly insight into how social workers build and sustain relationships with children and families. It reimagines child protection practice, offering novel theoretical and practical perspectives on what ‘good enough care’ is.

This book provides an overview of significant ongoing global policy challenges from the climate crisis, conflicts and food insecurity to the cost-of-living crisis and global inequality. It examines how collaborative public sector entrepreneurship is shaping policy responses.

Migrant activism is a powerful force in today’s globalized world, but how effective is it as a tool for social change? This book provides a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on the role of migrant movements in challenging discriminatory policies and the continued struggle for equality and justice.

After over a decade of unprecedented cuts, this important book examines the radical transformation of legal advice funding and delivery in the UK. Using Liverpool as a case study, the authors analyse the impact of these changes on access to justice, social rights and health inequalities.

Using an interdisciplinary framework, this edited volume provides the first comprehensive, comparative analysis of social work professional organisations in 15 countries, bridging Global North and South perspectives.

Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts.

How do academic spaces perpetuate racial and religious inequalities, and what can be done to challenge them? This bold book explores British South Asian Muslim identity, unpacks Islamophobia and sparks conversations about inequality in higher education.

Amid growing public concern about the negative effect cross-examination has on vulnerable witnesses, this book examines the effect of recent reforms to cross-examination across the different jurisdictions of the UK and Ireland.