Provides a critical analysis of the salient aspects of community nursing, including a move towards more holistic care, assessment of needs, management issues, research, client relationships and values. This text is designed to enable students and educationalists to explore key issues.

Community penalties are court-ordered punishments, falling between imprisonment and fines, and involve some contact by a criminal justice agency. This work looks at the current debate on which policy pressures may be dominant over community penalties in the future.

Essential tool kit for professionals involved in shaping their local community environment.

Focusing on comparative criminal justice, this book examines the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages and elements in the criminal justice process, from policing through to sentencing. It provides the reader with an understanding of the globalisation of justice and standards of the administration of justice.

This work both reflects and advances current thinking on comparative, cross-national and cross-cultural aspects of the history of crime. The wide scope of its content broadens the focus of the historical context of crime and policing in order to reflect cross-national and cross-cultural factors.

Compassion and caring are at the heart of nursing but what does that mean in practice? This text uses real-life narratives, case studies and activities to demonstrate how you can develop the empathy and communication skills you need to create effective, compassionate and caring partnerships with patients, families and colleagues.

Written by a leading academic, this text presents a radical approach to death, ageing and public health that is useful reading for anyone working or studying in those fields.

Competencies for Advanced Nursing Practice is the definitive book to deliver guidance for practitioners working to be recognised for their advanced nursing practice.