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The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime problem by the 1990s.

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This volume offers a blend of historical analysis and bibliographic data. It examines the course of the voluntary association for religious purposes and analyses prominent primary and secondary literature in the field of voluntarism. Hundreds of voluntary associations prior to 1900 are listed.

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This book looks at how civilian oversight bodies have been interpreted and implemented in a wide range of jurisdictions around the world.

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is an introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book explores how power and privilege shape our understanding of crime and justice. The fifth edition features new material on police violence and Black Lives Matter, disability, and more.

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Speaks specifically to people of privilege who want to enforce social change for the better. Complete with comics, exercises and personal stories, this book aims to give its readers the tools they need to stop hiding their privilege and instead put it to work for social change.

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Classifying Reactions to Wrongdoing provides three comprehensive taxonomies for categorizing (1) crimes, sins, breaches of custom, and other misdeeds, (2) sanctions and treatments which people recommend perpetrators of misdeeds should experience, and (3) the aims of such sanctions and treatments.

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Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.

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A timely collection looking at communication in elderly care and how we can best understand and improve its quality. >

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The study shows how that one neighborhood is fighting crime through a community education (comprehensive) approach.

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Reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While aware of the strengths of community service programmes to the development of schools and society, the author believes that behind these good intentions, there is a certain ambivalence.

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This book is a study of collective efficacy in eight neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Using residential surveys, observations, and new methods of statistical and mapping analysis (kriging), the book provides a number of important findings relevant to the theory itself, ramifications for its use within communities, and implications for current and future research.

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The chapters deal with general issues in comparative criminology, cross-national data, perceptions of crime, violent crime, crimes against property, economic and political crime, transnational corporate crime, correlates of crime, underdevelopment and modernization, social control and dispute resolution, and criminal justice and penal policies.

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Originally published in 1948, "Con Man" is undeniable proof that "Yellow Kid" Weil was the virtuoso scam artist, bar none. Here is Weil's story as never before, with a smart and witty Afterword by Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, who profiled "Yellow Kid" for "The Reporter" in 1956.

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This book compares tradition attribute data methods for assessing perceptions of deviance to emerging relational data-based social network methods using a cross-cultural sample from the United States and South Korea. It offers new insights into the conceptualization of deviance and the application of social network analysis as a new tool for studying social influence and perceptions.

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The sixth book in the bestselling Confessions series.

What is life like for a female Undercover Cop

Ash Cameron gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at life in the Police. Funny, moving and irreverent, youll never look at a bobby the same way again!

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This work examines the principle of confidentiality in social work from three points of view: social work theory and practice, principles of natural moral law or moral philosophy, and prescriptions of civil law and legal philosophy.

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Investigates the history of the detection and treatment of child abuse through the lens of the Children's Protection Society from 1896 to the end of the 20th century. The text explores the inner world of the organization within history and the changes in law and the social constructions of abuse.

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This work examines the historical, political, and social backdrops to the social welfare systems in the most developed welfare state systems of East Asia: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China.

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This book discusses contemporary healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify deficiencies in the system and provide recommendations for strengthening healthcare on the continent. Experts in clinical medicine, economics, public health, and the social sciences provide in-depth analyses of current issues that blend theory and practice.