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This compendium provides an orientation to basic issues of child and family policy. Examinations of the federal Baby Doe regulations and AIDS education policy in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, public schools highlight policy implementation.

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Here, a professor of nursing, who is expert in multicultural health care and social services, describes the basic attitudes and beliefs of 15 important ethnic and religious groups in America. She also shows how these traits can affect behaviour during illness or during social work interventions.

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In Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly, James Diego Vigil unravels the youth gang problem in America. Vigil uses a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, and social control of urban street gangs and highlights associated subcultural and identity facets.

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From the commission of the crime to the collection of evidence, examination of the crime scene, roundup of suspects, interrogation, and resolution, he leads readers from the scene to the courtroom, stopping along the way to consider all the elements that go into a murder investigation.

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Focusing on the female serial murderer, who is shown to be far more difficult to apprehend and complexly motivated than her male counterpart, this text explores the background, motive and method of killing, and the cultural biases that have historically dismissed the criminal potential of women.

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Murder Stories takes on the difficult question of American retention of capital punishment by investigating the elusive role of ideology in the law. As such it is a prime example of contemporary scholarship on the death penalty and law and society.

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A book purposely designed for adopted children to track and record their milestones and story. Similar to a baby book for biological children, this book is for all ages and designed specifically and uniquely for adopted kids.

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A gathering of more than 1,000 interesting, clever, and hilarious questions and answers about the world of mystery fiction for the ever-inquisitive mystery, crime, and suspense fan by the owner of New York bookstore, Murder Ink.

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In nursing homes across the country, members of the Greatest Generation are living out their last days. "Nasty, Brutish, and Long" is a candid, humane, and improbably humorous look at the world of eldercare.

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This book offers a review of cases, data, and literature addressing the impact of national service programs and volunteerism in and across communities. The chapters, written by diverse authors, are structured to appeal to students and practitioners of policy, government, and nonprofit studies.

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This volume presents a field-tested enrichment program, MAP, to help married couples maximize their relationship potential.

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Australia's leading legal historian examines the chain of events that occurred between Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan and the day he faced the public executioner revealing the truth behind the drama, intrigue, and pathos of the death of Australia's most notorious outlaw.

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This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.

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This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation.

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This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation.

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Lists the sites of mob shootings, celebrity busts, riots, and other crimes and disasters in New York City and briefly describes each incident.

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Introduction; 1. Charles Pigott, The Jockey Club; or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age; 2. [James Parkinson], Old Hubert, pseud., An Address to the Hon. Edmund Burke from the Swinish Multitude (London, 1793; 3. James Henry Lawrence, An Essay on the Nair System of Gallantry and Inheritance; 4.

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Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collaborative and conflicting relationship between nonprofits and government at all levels: local, national, and international.

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Nonprofits and Government provides students and practitioners with the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary, research-based inquiry into the collaborative and conflicting relationship between nonprofits and government at all levels: local, national, and international.