Routledge International Handbooks
The Routledge Handbook on Karl Polanyi
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Cangiani, Claus Thomasberger
September 29, 2025
Karl Polanyi is one of the most influential social scientists of our era. A report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) begins by noting that we are in a "Polanyi era": a time of dangerously unregulated markets, where the greatest need for decisive political action is ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Disability Human Rights Hierarchies
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Meyers, Megan McCloskey, Gabor Petri
September 29, 2025
Disability is defined by hierarchy. Regardless of culture or context, persons with disabilities are almost always pushed to the bottom of the social hierarchy. With the advent of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), disability human rights seemingly provided a path ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation
1st Edition
Edited
By Cheryl Allsop, Sophie Pike
September 29, 2025
The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides. The ...
The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems: Towards Global Social Policy Science
2nd Edition
Edited
By Christian Aspalter
September 29, 2025
Developing countries may not have full-fledged welfare states like those we find in Europe, but certainly they have welfare state systems. For comparative social policy research, the term "welfare state systems" has many advantages, as there are numerous different types/models of welfare state ...
Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kyle A. Burgason, Matt DeLisi
September 28, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that ...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Technology and Engineering
2nd Edition
Edited
By Tom Allen, Andy Alderson, Alan Godfrey, Duane Knudson, James Webster, Kazuya Seo
September 28, 2025
Since the 1990s, the field of sports technology and engineering has expanded beyond an initial focus on sports equipment and materials to include various topics. These topics span sustainable equipment design and manufacturing, user‑centred design, biomechanics and human‑equipment interaction, ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie H. Linden, Giuseppe De Benedittis, Laurence I. Sugarman, Katalin Varga
September 28, 2025
The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis explores and clarifies the challenge of defining what hypnosis is and how best to integrate it into treatment. It contains state-of-the-art neuroscience, cutting-edge practice, and future-oriented visions of clinical hypnosis integrated into...
The Routledge International Handbook of Drug-Related Death Bereavement
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Stroebe, Kari Dyregrov, Kristine Berg Titlestad
September 28, 2025
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of drug-related death bereavement to increase understanding and help direct scientific research, with contributions from across the globe. It is the first comprehensive, cross-cultural, multidisciplinary review of research on drug-related death (DRD)...
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Federal Criminal Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Bumgarner
September 22, 2025
This collection provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the American federal criminal justice system. The book unites theoretical notions and advancements in practice, and brings a full picture of the U.S. federal criminal justice system into focus. The chapters are arranged in a logical ...
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Haynes
September 15, 2025
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism comprehensively surveys the sub-disciplinary area of religious nationalism, an interaction between religion and nationalism. The handbook has a global focus, including sections on how, why and with what effects religion and nationalism impact ...
Routledge Handbook of Sport Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Stacey A. Hall
September 01, 2025
This book provides an in-depth analysis of security issues and concerns in contemporary sport. Featuring the work of leading researchers and practitioners from around the world, it offers practical, evidence-based commentary and guidance. Drawing on the latest research evidence, the book examines ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Glocal Social Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Panagiotis Pentaris, Janet Walker
August 25, 2025
Global challenges, opportunities, and developing new social phenomena have always had an impact on and change the circumstances under which social work is practised. Whilst social work can take many "local" forms, it is also a global profession which strives to advance the causes of vulnerable and ...