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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.

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Written by an extraordinary team of authors, including Danny Dorling and Kate Pickett, this book offers a compelling and achievable vision for a progressive future. It presents concrete policy proposals for the reform of welfare, health and social care, public utilities and more.

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Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.

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The author presents a theory of juvenile delinquency which explains the rise of delinquents from middle class backgrounds. Written by two eminent sociologists, Adolescent Subcultures and Delinquency is the culmination of 20 years of research, and includes new methodological procedures in addition to new data.

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Regardless of your income, Adoption Assistance can show you how to adopt a IV-E eligible baby, child, or siblings with special needs at low or no cost. Learn how to navigate the state adoption bureaucracy and how to advocate for financial programs that make raising the children affordable.

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This annotated bibliography covers the literature published since 1900 suitable for children and young adults dealing with adoption. The 503 titles are divided into fiction and non-fiction by reading level and include bibliographic information, pagination, and OCLC number.

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With contributions from researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and advocates in adoption policy and practice, this volume covers topics including: adoption advocacy; race and adoption; placement of older and disabled children; adoption disruption; and federal adoption subsidies.

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A reference work which offers contemporary Afrocentric perspective on critical issues of crime and justice by focusing on the contributions of African American criminologists.

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Does justice exist for Blacks in America This comprehensive compilation of essays documents the historical and contemporary impact of the law and criminal justice system on people of African ancestry in the United States.

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Drawing on research from New York State, the contributors argue that, while massive decarceration is taking place, developments in the criminal justice system have instead led to a justice disinvestment as the state sheds direct responsibility for the criminal justice system to the private and non-profit sector.

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Drawing on research from New York State, the contributors argue that, while massive decarceration is taking place, developments in the criminal justice system have instead led to a justice disinvestment as the state sheds direct responsibility for the criminal justice system to the private and non-profit sector.

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After the Doors Were Locked offers a look at the history of youth corrections in California from its origins to the present day. Macallair comments on the practices and how they have evolved throughout the centuries. This book also looks at the reforms currently taking place in California prison systems today.

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This text examines the development of social policies affecting older people since the origins of the German welfare state under Bismarck, and looks at how policy makers have sought to cope with the growing numbers of elderly people over the years.

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Focusing on the intensely private Genava banker Bruce Rappaport and the Bank of New York, the authors show how the two worked together with dodgy Russian banks to move and launder billions through channels that include off-shore banks, shady joint-ventures, and outright criminal organizations.

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These essays treat the legal, financial, ethical, political, institutional, and social dimensions of the most important element of America's correctional crisis: prison overcrowding.

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This book sets the record straight about the nation's welfare programs, showing that the gloom and doom surrounding public discussion stem from false ideas about what these programs are and how they work.

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A detailed compendium of American gangsters and gangs from the end of the Civil War to the present day.

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An analysis of organised hate crime violence, where the author presents historical specificity for a modern theory of hate crime, and then tests it with interview data derived from those who have committed an array of violent acts against members of the classic "outgroups" of American society.

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An analysis of organised hate crime violence, where the author presents historical specificity for a modern theory of hate crime, and then tests it with interview data derived from those who have committed an array of violent acts against members of the classic "outgroups" of American society.

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American Sociology has changed radically since 1945. This volume traces these changes to the present, with special emphasis on the feminization of sociology and the decline of the science ideal as well as the challenges sociology faces in the new environment for universities.

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Richard Wright analyzes the current state of the criminal justice system in tandem with the experiences of survivors in the aftermath of a violent crime, addressing the lack of cohesion between the current policies and the needs of victims, despite race, age, gender, economic status, occupation, or sexual orientation.