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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.

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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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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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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.

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As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming an organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. This work offers a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being.

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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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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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With the rise of school shootings and the recent March for Our Lives movement, Urban Youth Trauma focuses on the timely and important topic of urban violence and guns, while also addressing intervention strategies for social workers and counselors.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Although they have existed in Britain for over a thousand years, it was not until the nineteenth century that prisons became the cornerstone of the penal system. This book looks at the development of prison buildings, life and labour of prisoners, and the position of prison officers.

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Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. This book is certain to be an illuminating and important contribution to a fascinating aspect of Victorian History.

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Blending history, scholarly analysis, and pop culture, this book provides the necessary context to understand vigilantism in the US and globally.

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This work argues that there are features of police culture which foster abuse of the right to use violence. The text makes positive suggestions about institutional changes that might alleviate the problems bedevilling what the philosopher Thomas Hobbes called ""the right of the sword"".

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Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levelsstructural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence.

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This book explores how virtual reality can be used to improve traditional cognitive behavior therapy, a widely used therapeutic technique used to treat offenders, by offering a controlled environment where offenders can learn new skills, role play, and practice scenarios that they may find when back in the community.