Ian Cummins

True Crime is a huge cultural industry: media organisations use crime stories to push sales and clicks. Yet behind this phenomenon lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between the representation of violent crime and its reality. This book is a go-to guide for students and researchers in understanding the development of this phenomenon and its social and cultural impacts....

Bringing together leading voices in theory, practice, and research, Human Rights in Social Work examines how social workers can move beyond rhetoric—confronting the profession's own historic and ongoing failings—to embed a deeper, more intersectional understanding of human rights into social work's core.