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This book focuses on the major trends in organized crime, drug trafficking, and violence in Mexico. It highlights the transition from the Felipe Caldern administration to the Enrique Pea Nieto government and analyzes continuities and differences in counternarcotics policies.

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This overview of various national policies and programs is intended for students and scholars, policymakers and public administrators dealing with fundamental problems in homeownership and control.

Ownership and control has long been a central theme in the heated public debates in different countries over housing policy.

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Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad quality of life concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income.

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This in-depth exploration uses individual portraits to show what parents face as they love and care for their mentally ill children and cope with how the mental health system has failed them.

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Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations.

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Pauper policies examines how policies under the old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. This fresh perspective reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars. -- .

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A fresh perspective, which reveals significant aspects of poor law history which have been overlooked by scholars

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Who should bear the financial and social costs of the consequences of crime The author analyzes the social philosophy and legislative policy behind such remedies as restitution, private insurance, and civil litigation, notes their histories and their limitations, and makes recommendations for ways that each can be improved.

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A critical look at the United States' criminal justice system, raising an obvious question: If crime rates aren't going up, why is the prison population

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Studies 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. The field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release, and how behaviour improved.

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During the past 20 years, the great human service systems of the United States have suffered a spectacular decline in efficiency and effectiveness along with a spectacular increase in costs.

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In a readable, coherent, and succinct account, Kiger surveys the changes that have taken place in U.S. foundations in the 20th century and describes our foundations as they exist today.

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In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period. Focusing on London, the most visible area of both destitution and social experimentation, this book examines the polit

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American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a powerful and integral force in American society This book explores the twentieth-century growth of this phenomenon.

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He then presents and defends an overarching model of philosophical counseling that captures the best conceptions and reports of practice.

The volume begins with an examination of the principles of philosophical counseling as they have been gathered from theoretical normative hypotheses and from accounts of actual practice.

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