Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

Einhorn and Logue analyze the political, economic, and social challenges facing five small, affluent, and advanced industrial democracies in Scandi...

Gender is revealed as a central organizing principle in social life when the unexpected transforms daily routines, environments, and social institu...

Aging in America imposes dramatic personal, social, and economic changes. Retirees have substantial power to affect both business and public policy...

This interdisciplinary study applies human rights theory to the problems of rural poverty in the Third World. Considering the interdependence of mi...

In a collection of compelling contributions to the study of the nexus between race, crime, and justice, noted scholars in the field critique many l...

This work is a cross-sectional analysis of school disturbance as it has evolved from the inception of schools in colonial America. In their introdu...

Health care in the United States at the end of the 20th century occupies a completely different place in the economy, in the public consciousness, ...

What impact do international economic inputs have on human rights in Third World nations? William Meyer explores the effects of direct investment b...

In this exploration of new possibilities for the reduction of workplace violence and occupational homicide within a variety of work environments, K...

The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America's drug war with passion seldom...

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloq...

This is the first comprehensive account of President Herbert Hoover's policies to reform federal criminal justice administration. Beginning with th...

Bill Clinton's 1993-94 health care reform initiative was one of the most active and sustained presidential campaigns ever undertaken in support of ...

Abrahamson focuses on the dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in the United States during the last half of the 20th century. H...

Are advantaged offenders defenseless against the harshness of prison life? Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged of...

During the past 20 years, the great human service systems of the United States have suffered a spectacular decline in efficiency and effectiveness ...

Effective communication is the key to encouraging healthy behavior. Documenting a revolution in both theory and practice, Johns Hopkins University ...

Given the apparent failure of the War on Drugs to eliminate or even substantially decrease the use, sale, and trafficking of drugs, and given the n...

While the short, lethal careers of serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Andrew Cunanan terrorize the public and provide morbid inspiration for...

This book introduces the reader to the critical issues, important trends, theories, and various subdisciplines in the current manifestation of radi...

How does the Israeli criminal justice system treat its most significant minority group—the Arabs? This book explores the functioning of Israel's cr...