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Offers an analysis of public versus private management of prisons, a competition that originated with the introduction of private facilities into the criminal justice system in the 1980s. The authors measure prison performance with the technique of multi-level modeling for simultaneous measurement of the individual and the institution.

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How much responsibility for providing health care to the poor should be devolved from the federal government to the states Any answer to this critical policy question requires a careful assessment of the Medicaid program.

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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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Although sold to the public as a cost-saving measure, the privatization of prisons has not only led to significant changes in policy making and the management of prisons, but has also generated widespread concern that incarceration has become a profit-making industry.

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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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Grounded in both current and original research, Minorities and Deviance expands the definition of stress and its relationship to deviance, providing a better understanding of the role stress can play in addiction, obsession, and self-harm.

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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.

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Drawing on decades of research, the author demostrates how morality emerges naturally in the context of children's everyday social interaction as they form caring attachments and judgments about fairness.

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Can moral vision influence the dynamics of the world system This inquiry into the evolving foreign aid policies of eighteen developed democracies challenges conventional international relations theory and offers a framework of testable hypotheses about the ways ethical commitments can help structure global politics.

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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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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.