Social Services & Welfare, Criminology

High-risk youth are rarely able to succeed in school, on the job, in their family relationships, or in society at large. They often express hopeles...

Simon explores the diverse and changing roles of women over twenty-five years. Part I includes several chapters that examine the experiences and pe...

On the 75th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotic Act that unleashed the federal anti-drug crusade, historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the o...

This work is the most comprehensive volume to focus on new directions in professional practice with families of people with mental illness. It offe...

Governmental social institutions are responsible for major policy decisions that deeply affect our everyday lives. This edited collection analyzes ...

Illustrating the diversity and richness of biosocial theory, this contributor volume introduces numerous new views on the biological and social cau...

Eclipse of Freedom unravels the dynamics of oppression that frustrates human aspiration, highlights policy linkages that explain unwarranted misery...

This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, blac...

Many Yemenite Jews made their way to Israel in the first half of the century. Later, following the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948, the r...

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...