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Volunteerism is the most effective, democratic, and humane anticrime strategy currently available to address issues of street crime and overall injustice. Ordinary citizens have taken on roles involving crime control and prevention. They have successfully done this within a rule of law framework, helping to create stronger social networks.

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Exploring case studies that cover various levels and instances of genocide, this book offers new insights to this highly researched field for scholars and students alike

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Exploring case studies that cover various levels and instances of genocide, this book offers new insights to this highly researched field for scholars and students alike

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Police brutality and misconduct have been under the microscope for the last several years. Loretta Prater confronts the far-reaching consequences of police brutality through the personal case of her son, numerous examples of other cases, and a review of related research.

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

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Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution illustrates how experimental methods, particularly laboratory experiments, can be useful for researchers studying crime, deviance, and law. Scholars in these areas have typically relied on data from surveys, ethnographi...

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This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining ...

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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 book conceptualizes family reentry in terms of the untapped potential evident in the lived experiences of incarcerated fathers. It draws on postphenomenological concepts and real-life examples from Europe and the United States to frame a method for keeping fathers intimately engaged in the day-to-day lives of their children, even from afar.

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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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