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By: Steven G. Livingston

ISBN: 9781598841190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This handbook is a one-stop forum for nonpartisan discussion of the major proposals for addressing Social Security's coming financial crisis.

This timely volume details the history and development of the American system of Social Security and examines the serious problems it faces.


(Hardback)

By: Martin Kantor

ISBN: 9780313346507
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Exposes the broken Veterans Administration (VA) system that goes from the Washington boardroom to local treatment rooms to detail how all concerned - from the VA doctors to the vets themselves - compromise the VA system of medical care delivery and what needs to be done to make the necessary repairs.


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By: William P. Bloss

ISBN: 9780275994068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Throwing light on a timely and controversial subject, this volume considers the privacy rights of alleged criminals, convicted criminals, crime victims, and justice personneland the violation of those rightsin light of post-9/11 privacy policy changes.

This revealing book answers many crucial questions.


(Paperback)

By: Marie Connolly

ISBN: 9780230250192
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book crosses international boundaries to explore contemporary child and family welfare practices. It traces the major changes and challenges in Western practice over the past decade, looks at evidence-informed practice, and focuses on the generic phases of the statutory process, including assessing risk and finding safe solutions.


(Hardback)

By: Marilyn D. McShane

ISBN: 9781440839627
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge look at the problems that impact the way we conduct intervention and treatment for youth in crisis today-an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, researchers, policymakers, and faculty working in the area of juvenile justice.


(Paperback)

By: Marilyn D. McShane

ISBN: 9781440843594
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Joe Farrell

ISBN: 9780719049002
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia. The individual pieces come from a diverse range of sources, including newspapers, historical and sociological works. There is an introduction in English, as well as a full vocabulary.


(Hardback, 6th edition)

By: Neil Thompson

ISBN: 9781350399174
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

ISBN: 9781498534949
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialog about the nexus between schools, prisons, and the free-market economy where youth are on fast tracks from schools to prisons.


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By: Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

ISBN: 9781498534963
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialog about the nexus between schools, prisons, and the free-market economy where youth are on fast tracks from schools to prisons.


(Hardback)

By: Jungyun Gill

ISBN: 9781498509626
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of class, race, and nationality and bringing to light the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups.


(Paperback)

By: Jungyun Gill

ISBN: 9781498509640
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores adoption of Asian children by white Americans, looking at multiple ways in which adoptive, birth, and foster mothers experience gender oppression from their different positions of class, race, and nationality and bringing to light the interdependencies and inequalities of the motherhoods of these three groups.


(Paperback)

By: Harry Specht

ISBN: 9780028740867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Susan D. Einbinder

ISBN: 9780275958497
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Describes the benefits of partnering university-based interprofessional graduate education with community-based agencies, organizations, and individuals to improve outcomes for families and children.


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By: Kara Lawrence

ISBN: 9780732279035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Late on a chilly July night, residents of a quiet Sydney suburb were roused by Sef Gonzales, the son of their new neighbours, yelling that someone had murdered his family. The twenty-year-old orphaned son Sef quickly became the prime suspect, and after an 11-month investigation he was arrested and sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment.


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By: Limor Ezioni

ISBN: 9781793615381
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book focuses on the three major types of child harming within the familyabuse, incest, and filicideexamining each subject in-depth historically, legally, and comparatively.


(Hardback)

By: Mittie Olion Chandler

ISBN: 9780313263385
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Donald Rosenthal

ISBN: 9780313261480
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Although many scholars have emphasized the shortcomings of federal housing programs, few have examined their successes and failures on a case-by-case empirical basis.


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By: Shabbir Cheema

ISBN: 9780275926533
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book addresses the urgent need for adequate shelter and services for the urban poor in developing countries. To enhance the practicality of this excellent source, there are ten original case studies of urban projects, eighteen country papers, and concept papers from the United Nations Centre for Regional Development.


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By: Joan Kaywell

ISBN: 9780313307157
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book deals with four types of abuse: neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. For each type of abuse, selected works of fiction, literary, and professional perspectives are juxtaposed along with applications for utilizing the stories in a hypothetical therapy setting.


(Hardback)

By: Matt Long

ISBN: 9780230580855
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Vandalism and Anti-Social Behaviour forwards a new typology of vandalism. The authors argue that in order to fully understand vandalism and anti-social behaviour, a culturally criminological perspective should be fostered, which accounts for the emotional and experiential aspects of crime.


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By: Gregg Barak

ISBN: 9780275947743
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While there is disagreement among the authors about whether criminologists are developing new theory or circulating old theory, their contributions in this reader demonstrate the emerging plurality in criminological discourse, revealing continuities and discontinuities between old and new.


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By: Gregg Barak

ISBN: 9780275944858
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While there is disagreement among the authors about whether criminologists are developing new theory or circulating old theory, their contributions in this reader demonstrate the emerging plurality in criminological discourse, revealing continuities and discontinuities between old and new.


(Hardback)

By: Raymond E. Armstrong

ISBN: 9780313319051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Each of the 50 states offers benefit programs to its veteran residents, but many veterans and their families are not aware of the various options. Despite the wide variation in the benefits programs from one state to another, veterans can generally find programs that specifically address their needs in their resident state.

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