Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Violence in Central America has reached crisis levels. Throughout Central America, Mexican drug trafficking organization, local drug traffickers, t...

Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, refers to the subjection of men, women, and children to exploitative conditions that can be tantamoun...

This book provides an overview of the benefits, issues, policies and programs relating to our military servicemembers. Topics discussed in this iss...

Foster care is a temporary living arrangement for children who cannot remain safely in their own homes. For nearly every child who enters foster ca...

The 2014 National Drug Control Strategy builds on the foundation laid down by the Administration''s previous four Strategies and serves as the Nati...

In the Godfather Garden is the true story of the life of Richie the Boot Boiardo, one of the most powerful and feared men in the New Jersey underwo...

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

One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mo...

Only a small fraction of the impaired drivers who are at risk for alcohol-impaired-driving crashes are arrested. These include drivers who drink re...

Elder abuse is a pervasive phenomenon around the world with devastating effects on the victims. Although it is not a new phenomenon, interest in ex...

Elder abuse -- including neglect, abandonment, and financial exploitation, as well as physical and psychological abuse -- affects millions of Ameri...

Being rooted in Eurocentric culture, social work practice in other cultural groups has long been a challenge for professional workers around the wo...

In this book, the authors discuss the challenges, practices and cultural influences of caregiving. Topics include caregiving for individuals with n...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reduces the average delivery time frame for emergency food aid by prepositioning food domesti...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time, equality, and the t...

The experience of custody is one most of us only usually hear about from outside. All the intricacies of navigating prison life suicide watch, fig...

Provides unique insight into Reconstructions downfall and Jim Crows emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran a...

Now a major film streaming on NETFLIXI couldnt turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force. Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire o...

Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry. A short whi...