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This book examines the representation, global inclusion, and commodification of the subaltern through digital platforms for online microfinance, the discourses of gender empowerment that emerge through MPESA promotional material online, and the use of games for change in online philanthropy.

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In recent years there has been a growing trend towards increased communication among members of the adoption triad. This unique study investigates the consequences of openness in adoption, as practiced by several adoption agencies.

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This book focuses on the major trends in organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico. It highlights the transition from the Felipe Caldern administration to the Enrique Pea Nieto government and analyzes continuities and differences in counternarcotics policies.

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This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control.

Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy.

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Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad quality of life concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income.

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This in-depth exploration uses individual portraits to show what parents face as they love and care for their mentally ill children and cope with how the mental health system has failed them.

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This resource advances the scholarship in academic research about the experiences of parole officers' occupational challenges in Canada's federal correctional system, including exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events, and provides evidence-based recommendation for meeting the mental health needs of correctional workers broadly.

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Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations.

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Patronizing the Public is the first detailed and comprehensive examination of how American philanthropy has transformed culture, communication, and the humanities. Drawing on an impressive range of archival and secondary sources, the chapters in the volume shed light on philan...

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Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. -- .

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A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars

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Who should bear the financial and social costs of the consequences of crime The author analyzes the social philosophy and legislative policy behind such remedies as restitution, private insurance, and civil litigation, notes their histories and their limitations, and makes recommendations for ways that each can be improved.

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A critical look at the United States' criminal justice system, raising an obvious question: If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population

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Studies 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. The field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release, and how behaviour improved.

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During the past 20 years, the great human service systems of the United States have suffered a spectacular decline in efficiency and effectiveness along with a spectacular increase in costs.

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Perverts and Predators is the only available work that deals in-depth with the laws against sexual offending and highlights the significant role of the media in shaping sex offender legislation. The authors provide analysis of sexual offending from the unique perspectives of s...