The US Sentencing Commission defines mandatory minimum sentencing provisions as "statutory provisions requiring the imposition of at least a specif...

The federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) outlaws the possession, cultivation, or distribution of marijuana except for authorised research. Twent...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in Obergefell v. Hodges recognized federal constitutional protection for same-sex marriage.1 A...

Book & CD-ROM. The Home Visiting Program is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in partnership with the Adm...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) -- a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- and states j...

Medicaid is a significant expenditure for the federal government and the states, with total federal outlays of $310 billion in fiscal year 2014. Th...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...

Medicaid is a federal-state entitlement program that pays for health care and related services on behalf of certain low-income individuals. Prescri...

Volatility in prices and availability of medical malpractice liability insurance and allegations that insurance companies may have colluded in rais...

This book presents background and an examination of the issues before Congress as it relates to medical malpractice with a focus on the economic is...

Medicare is the nation’s health insurance program for persons aged 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare consists of four distinct pa...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 established a voluntary, outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medi...

Through close examination of legal, historical, and medical sources, this volume sheds light on the evolution of U.S. law as it bears on bio-ethica...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

These twelve essays constitute a groundbreaking volume of new work prepared by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, constitutio...

Meet 18 of the Midwest's most atrocious and vile human beings. Read histories of murder and mayhem committed by individuals with burning anger and ...

This book is a summary and a survey, spelling out the considerations that Congress found were a part of the realities of agricultural employment in...

U.S. agencies have sought to address causes of unaccompanied alien child (UAC) migration through recent programs, such as information campaigns to ...

This book provides a background and analysis comparing military commissions as envisioned under the MCA to the rules that had been established by t...

Recent high-profile military-related cases involving sexual assaults by U.S. service members have resulted in increased public and congressional in...

Whistleblowers play an important role in safeguarding the federal government against waste, fraud, and abuse. However, reporting wrongdoing outside...

Concern about missing and exploited children gained national prominence in 1981 when Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John and Reve Walsh was abdu...

This book is a summary of the elements of federal criminal money laundering statutes and sanctions imposed for their violation. The most prominent ...

The federal government assumed control of the ailing Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ...

A mortgage represents a loan or lien on a property/house that has to be paid over a specified period of time. Mortgages come in many different shap...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has declared that motorcycle fatalities represent the nation's greatest highway traffic safety challeng...

This book tells the story of the case of Zimbabwean-born New Zealand resident George Gwaze, twice charged and twice acquitted of the rape and murde...

The laws that determine who pays whom in the digital world were written, by and large, at a time when music was distributed mainly via radio broadc...

A well-integrated, national biosurveillance enterprise is a national security imperative. The United States' ability to detect quickly and characte...

The National Mediation Board (NMB) was established under the Railway Labor Act to facilitate labor relations for railroads and airlines by mediatin...

In the aftermath of the information sharing failures leading to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New Yor...

The National Park Service (NPS) administers the National Park System, which covers 84.6 million acres of land and consists of 410 diverse units val...

This book examines the national security and preparedness issues, developments and analyses facing the U.S. today. Topics discussed include the nat...

This book reviews the current state of the U.S. market for natural disaster insurance and offers a high level overview of natural catastrophes, ins...

Recent expansion in natural gas production has made the resource an increasingly significant component in the U.S. energy market. Further, a number...

In law, intellectual property (IP) is a broad entitlement extending the concept of property beyond its materialist definitions to include informati...

A recent large advertisement in the New York Times paid for by the Central Bank of Nigeria warns readers of the ongoing professional scam operation...

During the continuing foreclosure crisis and economic downturn, increased numbers of vacant residential properties are becoming vandalised or dilap...

Media stories about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance pertain to the unauthorised disclosures of two different intelligence collection pr...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), created by Congress, began operating in 1975. Its mission is to regulate commercial and institutional...

Nutrients are elements essential to plant and animal growth. In agricultural production, the focus generally rests on the three primary macronutrie...

Responding to ongoing concerns over the state of U.S. cybersecurity, the Obama Administration released a report containing a proposal for significa...

Obstruction of justice is the frustration of governmental purposes by violence, corruption, destruction of evidence, or deceit. It is a federal cri...

Obstruction of justice is the impediment of governmental activities. There are a host of federal criminal laws that prohibit obstructions of justic...

The prison population in the United States has been growing steadily for over 30 years. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that since 2000 an...

Offender rehabilitation theory and practice have traditionally focused on curing "offenders" of their deviant tendencies by changing their habits, ...

Includes a translator's preface, note on the text, and suggestions for further reading.