Following soon after the Japanese surrender in World War II, the whole country of Malaya was once more turned upside down and the lives of the peop...

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...

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug across the world, including in the United States. The federal government prohibits the manufacture...

The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption tells the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to it...

This book is an overview of the Healthy Marriage Initiative. The purpose of this book is also to understand more fully the strategies for improving...

America's incarceration rate raises several serious questions. These include: The correlation between mass imprisonment and crime rates; the impact...

This book explores consumer fraud and identity theft as well as telemarketing fraud which is both the oldest, and in some respects, the most persis...

When a spate of mass murders occurs, people often get the impression that this is a modern phenomenon and, since most of the mass murders heard abo...

Shooting incidents such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 and the one at Aurora, CO, movie theatre in July 2012 have focu...

In 2009–12, 68% of victims of serious violent crime -- rape or sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault -- reported experiencing socio-emotio...

This book is structured in four sections. Section 1 looks at the issues related to theoretical and methodological considerations. Chapter 1 to 5 de...

As part of a larger scheme to regulate drugs and other controlled substances, federal law prohibits the cultivation, distribution, and possession o...

Mental health is "a state of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities; can cope with the normal stresses of life; can w...

Being the world's most populated country, the People's Republic of China shoulders the largest number of persons with mental illness in the world. ...

This book examines methamphetamines, which have risen to the top of the American drug-policy agenda. For most of its history, it was regarded in la...

Methamphetamine (meth), a drug with limited medical use and high potential for abuse and addiction, is a subject of widespread concern. Once associ...

The aim of this book is to uncover non-Western immigrants' integration and living conditions in Denmark and Germany comparatively. The results are ...

Where do I start? People who need to raise money for any type of organisation often wonder how to take the first steps. How can I ask others for mo...

This is a collection of short stories from around the United States on organised crime, including events and personalities on both sides of the law...

The effectiveness of group counselling, as a treatment modality, has been well established. And while additional theoretical work will always be ne...

The boundary between public and private policing is messy and complex. Police executives deal with some aspect of it almost every day. Private inve...

Multicultural Counseling - Context, Theory & Practice & Competence

This book, prepared by the foreign law specialists and analysts of the Law Library of Congress, provides a review of laws adopted in Argentina, Aus...

The United States, at the local, state, tribal, and Federal levels, has made a concerted effort to enhance, expand, and codify multiple measures de...

The global illegal drug trade represents a multi-dimensional challenge that has implications for U.S. national interests as well as the internation...

For millions of Americans, the heartbreak of watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease is a pain they know all too well. Alzheimer's d...

The imperative for the exchange of terrorism-related intelligence information among law enforcement and security officials at all levels of governm...

In life, people face challenges and storms that come in different forms and fashions. These personal storms vary in scope, size and gravity, and so...

This book presents current research in the study of basic human rights, with a particular focus on the crimes against human rights and the laws whi...

The first part of the book is entitled 'Family, Transition and Ageing' and addresses rapid social and economic changes in China through a kaleidosc...

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wo...

Although the 9-1-1 system has been an unqualified success story for more than 30 years, changes in the public's use of technology, the saturation o...

Girls' delinquency has attracted the attention of federal, state, and local policymakers for more than a decade as girls have increasingly become i...

This volume covers Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Khun Sa and Raymond Chow. All three of these men are among the most colourful gangsters of recent times....