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This book analyses the immediate challenges from headlong cuts, root-and-branch restructuring and the longer-term pressures from population ageing. It demonstrates that a more humane and generous welfare state that will build social inclusiveness is possible and shows how it can be achieved.

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The winner of the 2006 Iremonger Award is a challenging, thought provoking and inspiring exploration of how we should rethink the idea of charity, arguing that to truly address the problems of poverty, inequality and environmental sustainability we need to become social entrepreneurs, establishing social businesses with real values at their centre.

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A cross-sectional analysis of the evolution of school disturbance in the United States.

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Bureau veteran Joe Koletars The FBI Career Guide reveals insider tips and real-agent stories to spell out exactly what the FBI looks for and how to maximize your chances: the education path, networking, pay, advancement, and more.

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A comprehensive reference work on the FBI and its strong impact on American public life. The text focuses on the history, role, powers, influence, organization, people, and cases of the FBI.

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This title provides a "place-oriented" theory of policing to guide strategies for crime control and problem-oriented policing. Sung contends that community policing is a product of power relations among communities. He also explores how services are delivered by police.

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Cox's informative, comprehensive, and sensitive consideration of an especially vulnerable elderly segment--the frail--makes a genuine contribution to the understanding of frailty that must guide support systems and public policy.

Issues addressed in this work include not only the consequences of frailty but also its prevention.

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Why are women so hard hit by disasters This international collection offers a range of answers, moving readers beyond stereotypes of women as hapless victims.

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Primarily descriptive in purpose, this work provides an overview of transnational crime in the United State.

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A prominent geriatric psychiatrist details the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of places where those with dementia are treated-from emergency rooms and psychiatric hospitals to assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

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Convicted murderer Billy Ferris has endured more than three decades behind bars in many of Britain's prisons. This title documents his experiences in jail with some of the UK's most notorious criminals.

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Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States.

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What happens when the criminal justice system convicts an innocent person This book examines competing perspectives on, and definitions of, miscarriages of justice. Rich with cases and statistics, the book helps students of sociology, criminology and law to understand the workings of the criminal justice system and its limitations.

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Guy Alchon examines the mutually supportive efforts of social scientists, business managers, and government officials to create America's first peacetime system of macroeconomic management. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr

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Focuses on the staples of American welfare system such as Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. This book maintains that these programs form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding.

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Using the catastrophic failure of the drugs prohibition policy in Ireland as a case study, this book exposes the illusory foundations of the monolithic and seemingly invincible international system of drugs prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. -- .

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