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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the context of a global backlash against migrant and LGBTIQA+ rights , this book examines the experiences of LGBTIQA+ people in the UK asylum system. By blending empirical data and critical theory, the text highlights the contradictions between the UK’s purportedly LGBTIQA+ inclusive narratives and its treatment of sexually diverse refugees.

Challenging the notion of the US as a singular market-driven economy, this book reveals the critical role that both the Federal and State governments play in shaping growth and how individual states vary significantly in fostering innovation and high-value industries.

This book links criminological, political, moral and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment. With case studies illustrating the direct and indirect harms that result from neoliberal policies or harmful inaction, it also demonstrates the harms caused by individualism.

Highlighting the substandard living conditions faced by many residents in social housing communities in Ireland, this book provides key information on housing quality at the community level and identifies practical solutions in the health, community care and housing sectors.

This book examines how biodata shapes human lives, science, and global justice. Drawing on anthropology and science and technology studies, the book redefines biodata as both context and connection across complex systems and histories.

This book assesses the impact of a unique youth and community space in East London, created to support local young people in addressing the challenges in their lives. It gives clear and practical evidence of the significant benefits of open access youth work, with guidance on replicating best practice in similar urban environments.