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...

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

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...

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...

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

In recent years research initiatives in the field of project management have accelerated and are now pursued across many disciplinary fields and a ...

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...

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

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...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

Sure to raise the hackles of many across the nation is any mention of welfare and federal entitlement programs. All agree that no one should be on ...

Nearly 1 million people and $1.5 billion of trade entered the United States through 328 POEs on an average day in fiscal year 2013. CBP, within the...