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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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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...

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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...

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