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...

Addressing Greenlanders, the German minority, problem children, as well as immigrants and refugees. Through historical and sociological studies of ...

Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling rio...

Tales featuring drug king pins, entertainers, hit men, street gangs, con men, corrupt cops and reformed gang-bangers. Read about the most feared ma...

An anthology of first-person stories by patients and their families, "Success Stories from the Frontline" is a frank depiction of what life is like...

Suicide & Homicide in the 20th Century - Changes Over Time

The President's National Drug Control Strategy describes the Administration's strategic approach for reducing illicit drug use in the United States...

Today, more than 12,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States use conducted energy devices (CEDs) as an alternative to conventional physica...

Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa, made up of multiple ethnic groups, cultures, and languages. She is a nation with world-acclaimed wri...

The Child Welfare System: Perspectives, Challenges and Future Directions opens with a description of the empirical results of a study on bird's nes...

This book is an attempt to present to the reader a critical summary of the results of the science now commonly called criminal anthropology. In oth...

Explore an urban underworld where many people get lost, lose it or just disappear! Twenty-something Oli shapes a torrent of chemicals into a searin...

This book introduces the 'new sociology of aging' through the analytical lens of sociological themes and new sociological theories. In traditional ...

The world today is a much more dangerous place in many aspects than it used to be years back. Much has changed in many arenas of life and the gener...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant in the United States. TANF was formed i...

This innovative book is a theoretical, reflexive and critical overview of the key issues connected to aging in contemporary society. The book explo...

Tobacco products face varying levels of taxation in different locations, creating opportunities and incentives for illicit trade. Cigarettes are ta...

Energy has been described as "that which makes things go". Air conditioning accounts for 1/3 of the total energy use in society. Further, ventilati...

This volume is a groundbreaking criticism of our criminal systems and of international criminal justice. One way of ensuring compliance with intern...

Trafficking in people for prostitution and forced labour is one of the most prolific areas of international criminal activity and is of significant...

This book explores the trafficking of persons for the purpose of exploitation and illicit drug trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Traf...

The end of the Cold War -- along with increasing globalisation beginning in the 1990s -- has helped criminal organisations expand their activities ...

Street gangs have long been a concern to policy makers. The more recent emergence, growth, and expansion of two Latino street gangs, the Mara Salva...

The United States has long adhered to the rules regarding the treatment of prisoners as set forth by the Geneva Convention. Following the terrorist...

"‘I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up...