Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

This volume examines the social policies that arose from the civil rights movement and proposes new steps to economic independence for black famili...

Radest reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While appreciative of the genuine contributions of commu...

A distinguished scholar has responded to generic issues of probation's function during a period of growing emphasis on punishment and incarceration...

The Latin Amnerican drug trade has become one of the major problems confronting the United States in the late twentieth century. The key dynamic of...

From the Foreword by George Henderson: Perhaps nothing captures the debilitating effects of sexism more vividly than [this] in-depth study of women...

The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of t...

The American Way is incompatible with the U.S. experience of post-World War II capitalism. National and individual self-determination are collapsin...

John T. Whitehead analyzes the extent and causes of job burnout in probation officers and correctional officers. Challenging models of burnout that...

The author presents a theory of juvenile delinquency which explains the rise of delinquents from middle class backgrounds. Written by two eminent s...

Building on his earlier Praeger work, Contemporary Economics, Rich here examines current and historical, theoretical and practical, notions of welf...

This is the second of Momeni's two-volume series on homelessness in the United States. While volume I concentrated on the statewide distribution, v...

The result of an intensive two-year research study, this volume examines the likely course of the AIDS epidemic over the next fifteen years. Extrem...

This book describes how institutional racism arose in Hawaii, why it arose, what kept it going, and how it can be dismantled. The book is unique in...

Within the last decade, social support has become an increasingly popular research topic among professionals in the social sciences. Many empirical...

This book is a timely response to the current U.S. crisis in public funding. Offering a new philosophy of public service that defies the old catego...

Approaching the problem of homelessness from a broad public policy perspective, Lang focuses on the American political economy and how it permits c...

America does not have a tradition of violence, but it does have a history of violence that can be traced through struggles and popular causes that ...

A revelation and a source of hope. Background essays give a historical overview of how the early pessimistic concentration on pathology has given w...

Where other books have discussed selected social practices in China, this volume is unique in its coverage of the entire social control apparatus o...

This provocative, informative book explores what is rapidly becoming a major obstacle in inter-American relations. Despite the common problems crea...

Bringing together many different theoretical viewpoints and empirical findings, this volume provides an up-to-date state-of-the-art report on viole...