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...