By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for child murderers'' actions, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann, and demonstrates how his theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society.

A Handbook of Dispute Resolution examines the theoretical and practical developments that are transforming the practice of lawyers and other professionals engaged in settling disputes, grievance-handling and litigation.

Aims to rescue a usable interpretation of the vocational theory in higher education by describing the historical and policy frameworks of the debate.

In 1996, powerful anti-immigrant forces in Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress worked hard to pass the most restrictive immigration laws in decades.

An exploration of responses of the judicial system to the explosion of media interest in sexual crimes: this study uses current data on the causes and charts the reactions of the services dealing with the growing number of sex offenders.

Work from leading sociologists are included in this set which examines how social interaction moulded young people.

Theodor Adorno was one of the giants of twentieth-century thought. This volume collects his key articles on the irrational in mass culture.

Offers a profound overview of the changing understanding of crime and criminals, of criminal justice systems and penology, and of the tensions and dilemmas these pose for democratic societies.

Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East explores the causes and consequences of the persistent poverty and extreme inequality that have characterised the region.