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This fascinating and timely book traces the emergence and evolution of cybercrime as an increasingly intransigent threat to society.

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace is intended to explain two things: what cybercrime is and why the average citizen should care about it.

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Among the problems that will have to be faced, according to the author, are Cuba's role as an active middleman in the drug trade, the U.S. market for illegal drugs, the impact of the drug trade on U.S. policy in the region, and the interrelationship of the drug problem to the Latin Americn debt crisis.

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Among the problems that will have to be faced, according to the author, are Cuba's role as an active middleman in the drug trade, the U.S. market for illegal drugs, the impact of the drug trade on U.S. policy in the region, and the interrelationship of the drug problem to the Latin Americn debt crisis.

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The US is alone among Western democracies in its support for capital punishment. Studies show that capital punishment is not a deterrent to crime. This book argues that death row is a form of psychological torture and slow, painful dehumanisation. It aims to provide information and strategies to those who are opposed to the death penalty.

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Recently, many political voices have indicated a strong desire to track down absent fathers who have absconded without fulfilling child support obligations to their biological or adopted children.

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This unique work addresses a common urban issue in the context of healing and outreach in a way that will especially appeal to social workers, community leaders and organizations, psychologists, urban sociologists, and students and scholars interested in the ways people deal with death and dying.

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In considering Eighth Amendment provisions against cruel and unusual punishment, the Court held that Willie Francis' previous subjection to electrical current did not make his subsequent electrocution any more cruel in the constitutional sense than any other electrocution.

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During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. The tales of these death row women shed light on the death penalty as it applies to women and the role of the media in both the trials and executions of these convicts.

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Based on a study of three Texan counties, this work examines the idea of differential handling of minority youth offenders. It finds that minorities are represented in the juvenile justice system in greater numbers than majority offenders due to their greater involvement in criminal activity.

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As the crime problem worsens, the need for up-to-date information on its dynamics and incidence increases. This book, the final in a four-volume series, focuses exclusively on demographic trends in criminality and victimization in the USA.

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Based upon Crawford's extensive survey of more than 300 U.S. businesses, this book explores and describes in detail the various types of employee benefits policies designed to ease the burdens of employees caught between the conflicting demands of work and the need to provide care for dependent children and/or parents.

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Compares the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. This book traces the historical origins of social policy in these regions to crucial political changes in the mid-twentieth century, and show how the legacies of these early choices are influencing welfare reform following democratization and globalization.

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The book addresses the consequences of criminalization, the effectiveness of the measures used and the implications for attitudes towards the young.

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This overview of American penology covers practice, historical precedents, ideologies, and trends in prison management, as well as penal literature. There is a brief description of each state prison system and components of the federal system are discussed. Entries are cross-referenced for clarity.

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The introduction describes the development of counseling since 1900 in this country, defines the major theoretical approaches to counseling through the years, describes the counseling process and characterizes counseling approaches at different stages in a person's life, and talks about client and counselor relationships.

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This work compares the nature and extent of changes in social welfare programmes and labour markets in nine industrialized countries. This cross-national study sheds light on general trends in social welfare, and provides clues to what constitutes successful reform and what has failed.

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This work compares the nature and extent of changes in social welfare programmes and labour markets in nine industrialized countries. This cross-national study sheds light on general trends in social welfare, and provides clues to what constitutes successful reform and what has failed.

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This work asserts that the belief that the development of high-standard welfare states is primarily based on the ideology that pro-welfare, mostly leftwing, parties dominate welfare state literature and common thought in the Western world.

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With the rise of violent crimes committed by teenagers in recent years, heated discussion has arisen over the societal factors that lead to juvenile criminality. Now a team of experts presents a book that cuts through the hype and paranoia to offer real solutions.