It is very clear that children in every country experience abuse and neglect. The descriptions of the child welfare systems in different countries ...

Globalisation has forced international issues to a prime consideration of businesses at every level. Formerly arcane topics like exchange rates, ri...

The Group of Twenty, or G-20, is a forum for advancing economic co-operation among 20 major advanced and emerging-market countries. The G-20 was or...

One of the key questions on international migration concerns its benefits and costs for the receiving economies. Assessing the overall net gain or ...

The 2015 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

In recent years, the international community has increasingly recognised international violence against women (VAW) as a significant human rights a...

In this, the latest in the Gay and Lesbian Perspectives series, researchers explore the rich history of queer Australasia, uncovering photographic ...

This book focuses on the importance of assessing risk in domestic violence cases to prevent and reduce its escalation into homicide (so called uxor...

Sociology is the systematic study of the taken-for-granted assumptions that people make about everyday life. This book explores a triumvirate of im...

This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal...

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as ...

The title of the book harks back to Michael Dorris's seminal work The Broken Cord (1987) which eloquently brought this ‘hidden' population into the...

The title of the book harks back to Michael Dorris's seminal work The Broken Cord (1987) which eloquently brought this ‘hidden' population into the...

This book represents the first meta-analysis of living standards of Koreans in the West by primarily drawing from a number of comprehensive statist...

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) system, operational since mid 2007, rapidly estima...

Latin American responses to neoliberalism and globalization have been varied and development strategies have changed over the past decades. The res...

Correctional agencies around the country are challenged by an increasingly transient workforce, exponential growth in technology, and continued bud...

No single method has proven effective in differentiating between English learner students who have difficulty acquiring language skills and those w...

At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal gove...