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This first-hand empirical study of elderly Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel during the Great Exodus of 1989 to 1991 demonstrates the double jeopardy of transnational relocation in later life.

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Vegetarianism has existed for centuries in the world as a social movement and subculture. This book presents this thriving subculture, including its businesses, organizations, events, scholarship, influence on the arts, and the vegetarians and vegans themselves, who hold a variety of perspectives on animal rights, advocacy, politics, and religion.

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Selected characteristics of some individuals and groups make them more vulnerable to crime than others. Contributors present a well-rounded view of the nature of the problems faced by each group, including critiques of past and current initiatives and suggestions for practical policy strategies.

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In the past 20 years, the victims' rights movement has gathered momentum, often succeeding in its attempts to turn the tables on laws and legislation that traditionally loaded the scales of justice in favor of criminal defendants.

Victims' Rights explores this movement and its implications in detail for the first time.

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According to the Latin American political analysts and scholars who contributed to this volume, free elections during the 1980s largely served to disguise rather than diminish institutional repressiveness and the reality of economic, political, and social disintegration that is occurring in many Latin American countries.

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The author examines the American people's history of taking the law into their own hands and analyzes the use of private power in three eras of American politics - Colonial, Populist and Progressive - asserting that it was crucial in creating, distributing and maintaining social values.

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This comprehensive, evidence-based examination looks at violence and security across the entire spectrum of education, from preschool through college.

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Under the aegis of the two grandes dames of international studies in psychology, 23 experts examine violence in all of its multivarious forms around the world. The second group of essays discuss violence involving childrenincest, trauma, delinquency, school violence, and the death penalty for youths.

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This extremely valuable collection of fourteen chapters is divided into two sections, with the first section covering research on physical abuse in dating relationships and the second section covering the issue of sexual abuse in dating relationships.

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From the popular video game Mortal Kombat to reality TV, this book offers a candid compilation of the history, problems, impacts, and solutions relating to media violence.

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Violent Ignorance addresses the uncomfortable political questions about belonging, race, migration and history we would all rather ignore

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Violent Ignorance addresses the uncomfortable political questions about belonging, race, migration and history we would all rather ignore

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Using insider accounts, this title presents the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators, and the victims of violence depict the complex emotions that surround the perpetration and resolution of crime. It shows that a new approach is needed to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.

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Using insider accounts, this title presents the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators, and the victims of violence depict the complex emotions that surround the perpetration and resolution of crime. It shows that a new approach is needed to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.

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Social researchers can hardly afford to ignore the Internet, as it becomes an intrinsic part of everyday life. This new site of social interactions is begging to be researched and explored. At the same time it can be a moral minefield and a quality control nightmare even for researchers skilled in established methods.

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Explores the problems and opportunities surrounding Internet-based research. From hyperlink analysis to the sex industry online, case studies in this title highlight the difficulties researchers face, the opportunities to be seized, and offer practical solutions. It is suitable for those planning a research project involving the Internet.

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A new work on the history of vitamins and the brilliant men and women who discovered the existence and nature of these small molecules so vital to our health.

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Tells the story of a migrant family enduring the harshness of the migrant fields and their abusive father.