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He stresses the impact of various government fiscal policies on charitable giving, an issue of increasing importance in light of social welfare spending cuts and the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

The book begins with an introduction of the issues involved and an explanation of how an economic analysis differs from that of other disciplines.

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Within the charitable records of this group, Preston contends that one can see how the Society changed over time and that, in Ireland, the industrial revolution as well as the 1798 Rebellion, contributed to the Society adapting to the mainstream.

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Offers insight into child abductions, what can be done to prevent them, and how to solve them once they occur. This book details the scope of the child abduction problem in the United States, and its real danger. It covers the different types of abductions and discusses the psychological changes that can occur in long-term abducted children.

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Day care was originally conceived by Soviet educators as a vehicle for fostering the roots of collectivism, patriotism, and love of work in children.

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This important new book critically examines the complex policy and practice issues surrounding child protection, including the impact of theoretical orientations, contemporary debates, policy initiatives and research findings, and maintains an emphasis on the ethics and values underpinning child welfare interventions.

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Addresses the tendency for children to be regarded as problems to be solved.

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Why are more young law breakers imprisoned in Russia and the UK than in any other European country This book explores the treatment of young offenders in these two very different states and the political and institutional context of their distinctively punitive approach.

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An approach for professionals helping children deal with foster care placement and adoption.

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Does social work theory and practice give adequate attention to the specific needs of children

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Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera. Their characters range from sweet, to brave, to tragic. Disabled children are also a part of reality as poster girls and boys for drives and causes. This work demonstrates the critical role of disability with respect to the history of childhood.

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The President's Commission on Organized Crime predicted that Asian crime groups would be the United States' foremost organized crime problem by the 1990s.

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This volume offers a blend of historical analysis and bibliographic data. It examines the course of the voluntary association for religious purposes and analyses prominent primary and secondary literature in the field of voluntarism. Hundreds of voluntary associations prior to 1900 are listed.

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This collection of essays explores the notion of repentance in culture, focusing on individuals who have been excluded from society for violating its laws. Amitai Etzioni argues that denying people the opportunity to regain their standing through repentance exacts heavy social costs.

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This book looks at how civilian oversight bodies have been interpreted and implemented in a wide range of jurisdictions around the world.

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Speaks specifically to people of privilege who want to enforce social change for the better. Complete with comics, exercises and personal stories, this book aims to give its readers the tools they need to stop hiding their privilege and instead put it to work for social change.

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Classifying Reactions to Wrongdoing provides three comprehensive taxonomies for categorizing (1) crimes, sins, breaches of custom, and other misdeeds, (2) sanctions and treatments which people recommend perpetrators of misdeeds should experience, and (3) the aims of such sanctions and treatments.

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Cleaning up Greenwash characterizes corporate environmental crime as an inevitable consequence of neoliberal markets and contemporary consumer culture and identifies that traditional criminal justice responses may be inadequate to deal with contemporary environmental harms.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.

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The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.

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