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As the American population ages, health care for the elderly grows in importance. Each citation is accompanied by an annotation that concisely summarizes and assesses the contents of the work.

The volume begins with an informative introductory essay on the ethical issues pertinent to health care for older adults.

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Today in the United States there is a lack of consensus about what constitutes ethical practice in adoption. Adoption specialists and professionals are unsure about how to serve the best interests of children who need to be adopted, and how birth parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees ought to be served.

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Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

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Characterizes the comparative lifestyles and wellbeing of heterogeneous older Americans by analyzing their expenditure patterns.

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Professor Brown provides a resource for clinicians, instructors, and students interested in promoting group process and progress, increasing group members' self-awareness and self-understanding, and strategies for resolving individual and group difficult behaviors.

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This intriguing book offers a comprehensive examination of all issues related to sports and criminal behavior, from high school to professional athlete, player to spectator.

Fair or Foul: Sports and Criminal Behavior in the United States is an examination of the intersection of these two increasingly connected worlds.

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This work is the most comprehensive volume to focus on new directions in professional practice with families of people with mental illness.

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This text approaches the topic of family health from a macro perspective. Family health is a holistic approach to treatment embracing aspects of family functioning. This text places an emphasis on the ecological context in which the family functions.

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Develops a family health perspective to facilitate effective social work and policy development. A family health orientation practice utilizes a holistic approach that examines family strength and stress. How families perceive these conditions and their ability to adapt and change will determine how concerns are managed by the family system.

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Bringing together many different theoretical viewpoints and empirical findings, this volume provides an up-to-date state-of-the-art report on violence in families. Included are in-depth analyses of child, spouse, and parent abuse, sibling violence, and sexual abuse.

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The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor.

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This timely book examines the history of American federal law enforcement as well as its current state in all of its forms.

The complex system of agencies, agents, and laws that make up our federal law enforcement program have a long and varied history.

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This volume assesses the pros and cons of the growing use of felony probation as a rehabilitative tool and as a functional alternative to alleviate prison overcrowding, and examines the models that provide a framework for understanding this pervasive problem.

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This text aim is to document women's unique and gender-biased experience as participants and victims of the criminal justice system. Topics include women on death row, probation and parole, juvenile delinquents and prostitution, cross referencing fields such as law, social work and psychology.

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This book examines female police officers experiences in Pakistan and the extent to which they can effect gendered and organisational change.

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This unprecedented look at female sexual predators explains why and how they prey on our children and youths and what adults-and children and youths themselves-should understand to prevent victimization.

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Fighting the Mafia is his dramatic tale of witness and survival, of his effort to expose Mafia infiltration of the highest levels of Italy's national politics, and of the movement he helped build-in the schools and churches, and at the ballot box-to recapture Sicilian culture and inspire a renaissance of democracy.

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