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Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth is

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Uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how and under what conditions excessive police violence leads to public outcry and subsequent police responses to demands for change.

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Judy Steel found herself in Uganda at the age of 58, providing medical aid to some of Africa's most disadvantaged people. Since 2000, she has returned every year for several months at a time, establishing a small hospital, health clinics for mothers and babies, a physiotherapy centre, literacy school, micro-loan bank and farming infrastructure.

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Chosen by the American College of Healthcare Executives as the James A. Hamilton book of the year, Market-Driven Health Care is a must read for everyone concerned about the U.S. health care system.

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This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as told by the media, offering research-based, factual answers to oft-asked questions and investigating common myths about these tragic events.

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Champion, an expert on criminal behavior, paroling, and sentencing, assesses how the justice system makes critical decisions about offender risks and needs.

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Daniels and his contributors examine the efforts of sixteen states to reform their Medicaid programs through a system of managed care.

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The standard reference on the psychology of rape, Men Who Rape presents a comprehensive clinical profile of sexual offenders with extensive information on counseling, prevention, and psychiatric treatment.

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This extensive overview charts the fluctuating course of mental health policy in the United States from colonial times to today.

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A collection of the professional literature from numerous disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, nursing, education, social work, that addresses the theoretical, empirical, and practice-related issues that mental health services to mentally ill and substance abuse offenders in criminal justice settings.

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This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Emile Durkheim's concept of the 'collective consciousness of society'.

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"Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and"

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This exceptional volume explores historical mistreatment of these minority groups, current trends in victimization, patterns in criminal behavior, arrest and imprisonment among minority group members, theoretical models in criminality, differential enforcement of the law, and future implications in addressing minorities and criminality.

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A criminal defense attorney, sociologist, and legal scholar takes readers inside New York City's lower criminal courts.

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This reference text explains what modern piracy is, where and why it happens, and what measures are being taken to combat it.

While piracy today typically occurs in specific areassuch as Somalia and Southeast Asiaa single pirate attack can involve and affect many different countries.

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Einhorn and Logue analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing five small, affluent, and advanced industrial democracies in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Einhorn and Logue analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing five small, affluent, and advanced industrial democracies in Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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This text sets out to identify new approaches to the management of resources in the foreign assistance programme that would permit the flexible manipulation of these resources to cope with the fast-breaking pace of international affairs.