Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Social scientists and philosophers alike have explored well-being and happiness. Well-being has been described as the ultimate dependent variable...

What are the social service needs of low-income urban American Indians and to what extent to do they access Administration for Children and Familie...

While most young people have access to emotional and financial support systems throughout their early adult years, older youth in foster care and t...

This book analyzes the most recent, reliable data about rape and sexual assault in our country. It identifies those most at risk of being victims o...

DNA evidence offers prosecutors an important tool in the identification and apprehension of violent criminals, particularly in sexual assault cases...

In 200912, 68% of victims of serious violent crime -- rape or sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault -- reported experiencing socio-emotion...

Nearly all major roads and bridges in the United States are part of the federal-aid highway system and are therefore eligible for assistance from t...

This book chronicles the development of the institutional model in Massachusetts with the well-intended beginnings, the decline and subsequent hero...

Can the police reduce crime? In 1991, when the first Executive Session on Policing concluded, the answer to that question was generally described a...

Caregiving is a long standing tradition in the African American community. This book provides historical and contemporary insight into caregiving. ...

Drug-related homicides have dramatically increased in recent years in Mexico along the nearly 2,000-mile border it shares with the United States. U...

The imperative for the exchange of terrorism-related intelligence information among law enforcement and security officials at all levels of governm...

This book explores the issue of crime and its relationship to gender and ageing. This is a forgotten area of analysis in disciplines of criminology...

The United States witnessed increased attention to sex offender management policy at the federal, state and local levels beginning in the 1990s. As...

Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

This book presents compelling empirical evidence, collected in the US and Europe, that how one reacts to others ups and downs may profoundly affect...

According to state reporting to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), there were at least 8 million active permits to carry concealed handgun...

This book examines the risks and benefits of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC). CCRCs can benefit older Americans by allowing them to m...

For more than 50 years, the United States, which accounts for about half of global food aid supplies, has played an important role in alleviating m...

Organized retail crime (ORC) involves the large-scale theft of everyday consumer items and potentially has much broader implications. Organized gro...