Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Almost forty percent of American adults age sixty-five and over spend some time in a nursing home, and residents in nursing homes will be increasin...

Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications...

Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn...

Diane Vaughan reconstructs the Ohio Revco case, an example of Medicaid provider fraud in which a large drugstore chain initiated a computer-generat...

Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraord...

This book is the first to utilize the empowerment approach of social work practice with substance-abusing clients, bridging clinical, community, an...

This book reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and, by all accounts, their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in s...

Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. ec...

Two of the nation's foremost criminal justice scholars present a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the growth and subsequent overcrowd...

This is an analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. This text uses a case study ...

While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into t...

The history of American gender and sexuality is examined here through a case study of the YMCA, the organization devoted to young men. The social h...

How can the history of birth weight add to our knowledge of women's living conditions in the past? In this study of newborn weight and economic gro...

-- The Social Worker

In the United States, it is rare that people of different races and social classes live together in the same housing developments and neighbourhood...

The Social Security Act of 1935 must be counted among the most monumental pieces of legislation ever passed by Congress. Sixty-five years after its...

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, "The Gang" is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originall...

"Most of us are unaware of child neglect even when we are witnessing it. . . . Neglect is a matter of things undone, of inaction compounded by indi...

The Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen...

"Like the subject about which she writes, Perlman engages the reader immediately, permitting a view into the author's rich and varied experiences, ...

Social security reform in the United States continues to be a pressing and contentious issue, with advocates touting some form of a centralized or ...

In this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various expe...

Drawing from their experience as government insiders, George P. Shultz and Kenneth W. Dam show how economic policy is shaped at the highest levels ...

It is often said that the federal government cannot or should not attempt to address America's problems of poverty and inequality—because its burea...