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...

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...

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...

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...

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...