(Hardback, Revised)

In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that pervade the criminal justice sy...

(Paperback, Revised)

In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that pervade the criminal justice sy...

(Hardback)

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(Hardback)

This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since 2014, and offers a compelling new direction to improve policing, today.

(Hardback)

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in the twenty-first century.

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Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first understand its historical origins in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Such a historical grounding is further employed to consider where policing is heading now in the twenty-first century.

(Hardback)

This book offers a systematic analysis of the community health center programs success since its establishment as a War on Poverty program.

(Hardback)

How do 100 major criminal justice groups in the United States work to affect public policies dealing with criminal justice in all its aspects A brief bibliography points to a few significant sources on criminal justice groups as a whole.

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An exploration of complex humanitarian emergencies and the evolving policies of the United States in responding to these emergencies. In addition, it examines the relationship of disaster response to U.S. foreign policy and national interest, and makes suggestions for improving relief strategies and systems for designing such strategies.

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In addition, Andrew Natsios examines the relationship of disaster response to U.S. foreign policy and national interest, and makes suggestions for improving both relief strategies and systems for designing those strategies.

To these issues Natsios brings his first-hand experience in numerous key positions.

(Hardback)

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.

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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.

(Hardback)

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.

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This work describes the devastating consequences of living in a public housing community damaged by the disappearance of manufacturing jobs, government cutbacks, and other structural transformations that plague the USA and Canada.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal - examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of 'cool.' Contemporary examples and original research are used to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture today.

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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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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)

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.