Social Security & Welfare Law

Over the last three decades, welfare policies have been informed by popular beliefs that welfare fraud is rampant. As a result, welfare policies ha...

Compared to other countries, Canada’s Parliament shows a high level of party unity when it comes to legislative voting. This was not always the cas...

The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is the most expansive federal legislation addressing intimate violence in the United States to date. ...

Also Serving Time informs readers about the realities of provincial and territorial prison work in Canada. Exploring the nuances of the job, Rosema...

National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of any democrat...

Bringing together top scholars in the field, Universality and Social Policy in Canada provides an overview of the universality principle in social ...

This book analyses the impact of European tax and benefit systems on incentives to create and take up jobs. European policymakers face tough choice...

The authors critically review memory research, trauma treatment, and legal cases pertaining to the false memory controversy. They discuss current m...

This new text is based on Frederic G. Reamer's key reference for practitioners, Social Work Malpractice and Liability: Strategies for Prevention. R...

By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has ...

Covering such critically important laws as the Homestead Act of 1862, the Social Security Act of 1935, Medicare and Medicaid, the Personal Responsi...

Though it may seem hard to believe, it took America's lawmakers some 110 years before they crafted legislation aimed at protecting the welfare of c...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

During the 1960s a new breed of "poverty lawyers"—in collaboration with welfare recipient activists—mounted a legal campaign to create a constituti...

This is an analysis of the issues and strategies associated with national health care. The work examines legislation pending in the U.S. Congress, ...

Whether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigration, or welfare systems, social workers ...

Whether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigration, or welfare systems, social workers ...

Insurance attorney Peter Lencsis provides a unique, objective description of the insurance regulatory system as it exists today in the United State...

It is estimated that over one-half of all litigation today is related, in some degree, to issues involving economic damages. This handbook presents...

Private and governmental insurance systems in the United States have been suffering an ongoing series of crises. Automobile liability insurance, ma...

Over the last three decades, welfare policies have been informed by popular beliefs that welfare fraud is rampant. As a result, welfare policies ha...