Purses & Shoes For Sale is a hardcover book about the author's journey as a caregiver to her elderly parents in the twilight of their lives. Pa...

This book examines the incendiary issue of racial variation in crime rates in the United States and in many other countries using a variety of data...

In recent years, racial profiling has drawn the attention of state and federal governments. In this book, racial profiling is defined as the practi...

Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...

The physical and mental demands associated with firefighting and other emergency operations exceed those of virtually any other occupation. When yo...

This book examines the practices, psychology and health-related issues issues relating to rehabilitation. The authors present topical research incl...

Parents have the legal responsibility to protect and care for their children. However, recent media reports have illuminated a practice involving u...

Improve your work environment by learning the science around TeamRelate and the concept of RelateAbility in the workplace. TeamRelate is a behaviou...

The incidence and prevalence of crime and criminal victimisation is becoming increasingly rife in most societies, developed and developing. Most go...

Federal funding to states supported over 200,000 youths in residential facilities in 2004, many seeking help to address behavioural or emotional ch...

The concept of justice covers a broad spectrum of human existential issues, and is defined according to established relationships that always put t...

This book is one of the first to explore contemporary welfare developments in the western world through a conceptual lens that is utilised by Miche...

To implement the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA), the federal judiciary have, among other things, revised internal guidelines, trained the Departm...

INSIDE THE FORBIDDING STONE WALLS OF NEW ZEALAND’S MOST INFAMOUS GAOL. Mount Eden is this country’s most famous gaol. The forbidding Victorian stru...

In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at...

This is the first book to trace scholarly influence in criminology and criminal justice over a twenty-year time period. It is based primarily on th...

The primary aim of this book is to examine the role of social workers in schools with respect to fostering children's rights and creating better ou...

Only a small fraction of the impaired drivers who are at risk for alcohol-impaired-driving crashes are arrested. These include drivers who drink re...

Security is one of the key pillars on which a stable society is built, and which guarantees the rights of its members. One of the modern strategies...

Since July 2007, the Committee on the Judiciary and its staff have been investigating allegations that political considerations may have improperly...

The topic of serial murder occupies a unique niche within the criminal justice community. In addition to the significant investigative challenges t...

Five federal agencies within four departments fund home and community-based services and supports that older adults often require to continue livin...

There is a widespread belief among criminologists, judges and the like that criminals are better off serving non-custodial sentences instead of goi...

This book provides a side-by-side analysis of various sex offender-related provisions in the "Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act of ...

Over the past 100 years, Congress has sought to prohibit acts of sexual abuse of minors and punish those who harm the nation's children. These effo...

Sexuality Counseling

Punctuated by gunshots and hoof beats, this engaging collection presents six biographies of hardened lawmen in Old California. Illustrating the dan...

This account of the struggle to bring law and order to a city rich with gold rush money, at odds with Mexican bandits, and teeming with forty-niner...

The symposium "Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom" held in Reinhause...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

The concept of disability over the last few decades has been defined in different ways, while the policies implemented demonstrate not only at the ...

This is a qualitative study into the experiences of parents of disabled children in Iceland in the period 1974-2007. Hardly any formal support was ...

The Social Security Administration has two income-maintenance programs that it administers: the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefi...

Social Security, in the United States, currently refers to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original S...

With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...

Social security is the nation's largest domestic program. It provides income support to 49 million beneficiaries, including retired workers, disabl...

The relationship between social support and health has attracted tremendous research interest during the past few decades. This book is the newest ...

Social scientists and philosophers alike have explored well-being and happiness. Well-being has been described as the "ultimate" dependent variable...

Social work and social development in the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow in new and exciting ways. Social work educators are an essential par...

A humanitarian profession as diverse as the population it serves, social work today has taken roots globally, as a profession that enables people t...

Social work has always embraced the service of helping people. But since its beginnings around the mid-1870's, two fronts within social work have b...

Being rooted in Eurocentric culture, social work practice in other cultural groups has long been a challenge for professional workers around the wo...

This book, which draws from fieldwork research and evidence, is provided to suggest a sense of emotional anxiety among social workers and case mana...

This book explores the contested concept and theorisation of care and its relationship to ageing. The book analyses the different and complex ways ...

Despite dealing with housing as one of the core issues of individuals' well-being and life situation, Cathal O'Connell's subject matter -- and appr...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) offers federal matching funds for states and territories to provide health insurance to unins...

An increasing number of states have adopted laws that legalise marijuana for medical or recreational purposes under state law, yet federal penaltie...