The aim of this book is to provide the reader with the broad spectrum of poverty and social policy issues in Central and Eastern Europe, and addres...

This interdisciplinary volume presents research at the intersection of religion, age and race and tackles the question what it is like to be young ...

Prescription drug abuse is a serious and growing public health problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses...

In the midst of national concern over illicit drug use and abuse, prescription drug abuse has been identified as the United States' fastest growing...

Modern developing multi-cultural countries claim their status as progressive democracies by promulgating policies of civic cohesion engendering eth...

In 2013, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will mark nearly ten years of success with an extraordinary year of achieveme...

President Obama announced in June 2014 that he would seek "to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own" through administrative acti...

This book focuses on the Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and reduce underage drinking, to focus national attention on this enduring pro...

Sexual violence is a serious public health problem affecting the health and well-being of millions of individuals each year in the United States an...

This book was reprinted from a public document and records from the US Government. It is a collection of hearings that took place in Washington DC ...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the practices, types and challenges in prisons and prison systems. Topics discus...

An Illustrated History of Protest and Activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. For a small, peaceful democracy in the South Pacific, New Zealand has had i...

Sexual assault constitutes both physical and mental violence, and it is not easily recovered from. Victims/survivors of sexual assault may experien...

The year 1998 witnessed the birth of a new disorder... Internet Addiction Disorder. As the number of linkage points, host computers, connected netw...

This new and timely book deals with the magnitude and the intensity of the poverty in Latin America, Mexico and the state of Nuevo Leon. The enormo...

Schools are, in general, safe spaces for every student, teacher and other professional. However, some problems related to the maintenance of school...

The idea of a federal public housing program began taking shape in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Its purpose was intended to be twofold: t...

The Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program was created by Congress to give the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local...

Poverty alleviation is a common issue facing the majority of the Third World countries. Since the 1970s, the fact that the number of the poor in so...

Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Af...

Quadriplegia is a consequence of cervical spinal cord injury resulting in the significant loss of physiological function; both sensory and motor. O...