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Examines the effects operational failures after hurricanes Agnes, Hugo, Andrew, and Katrina have had on America's disaster response program. This work also discusses the impact of 9/11 and the evolving role of the military, and identifies reforms that should be implemented to improve the nation's ability to respond in the future.

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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.

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The way American communities address the issue of low literacy has changed with the development of literacy coalitions. The authors examine in detail how this happened and explore potential emerging best practices for the collective impact approach to community change.

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This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society. -- .

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This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship fuelled by the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home-ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate contemporary society. -- .

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This book gathers perspectives from across Asia into one place, allowing for effective advocacy. It offers a single source of material that can be used by health professionals in East and Southeast Asia on drug policy and explains recent changes towards harm reduction and treatment modalities to the general public in East and Southeast Asia.

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Drug Trafficking in Mexico and the United States examines drug trafficking from an interdisciplinary and progressive perspective. Gabriel Ferreyra analyzes its origins, apogee, cultural globalization, and destructive effects in Mexico.

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Money laundering has been around as long as there have been illicit businesses, since criminals have always had to convert their ill-gotten gains into clean financial instruments in order to utilize them in legitimate business.

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The growing prominence of ecological and social systems perspectives in the child development and family studies fields is having an impact on the conceptualization and delivery of early intervention services. This text brings together the conceptual and empirical work of scholars in the field.

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This is the first book to argue comprehensively that unless we destroy the legal and political basis for the corporation, we are unlikely to reverse the decline of the eco-system, and therefore we will hasten the end of the species.

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Sheds light on social security issues by examining evidence from economic studies about how the system affects saving, labour supply, and income distribution. It shows that these studies provide little evidence to support or refute assertions that social security has reduced saving, but they do indicate that it has contributed to the trend toward early retirement.

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This groundbreaking volume is written for therapists, school social workers, educational practitioners, and others who wish to provide psychological treatment to children from within the school environment.

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For many years, law enforcement administrators, government officials, and researchers have explored the possibility of professionalizing law enforcement agencies and their officers.

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Effigy examines the images of a capital defendant portrayed, by the defense attorneys and the prosecutor, during the guilt and penalty phases of capital trial, the trial tactics used to impart these images, and the consequences that result from the jury's attempt to reconcile contradictory images to place one in permanent record as a verdict.

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Examines the Mexican cartels, how they smuggle drugs into the United States and ways to prevent the drug wars and protect our national security.

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Using a multidisciplinary approach to service learning in elder care, Seperson and Hegeman assist students in their actual experience with clients. Part III describes a service learning classroom and the many tools a student and a professor can use to maximize the learning in this special kind of class.

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Hu and Lovrich introduce the "electronic community-oriented policing" (E-COP), concept to explore how social media can impact police strategies on improving police-public relationships. This timely refinement to traditional community-oriented policing strategies is of the utmost importance as we move further into the twentieth century.

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This work is the first nontechnical guide to the principles, practices, policies, and profession of emergency management.

The monumental natural and humanmade disasters of the 20th century, which killed 25 million people in Asia alone, have underscored the need for professional and coordinated disaster response worldwide.

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Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective on the issue will inform all who work with older people.