Regional, state and other local government

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience-doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them.

The use of simulation modeling in criminal justice dates back to the 1970s.

Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961.

They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans.

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Family policy holds a particular status in the quest for a more equitable world as it intersects the rights of women, children, and workers.

Researchers recognize that theoretical frameworks and models of child development and family dynamics have historically overlooked the ways in which developmental processes are shaped by socio-cultural contexts.

Outside Justice: Undocumented Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System fills a clear gap in the scholarly literature on the increasing conceptual overlap between popular perceptions of immigration and criminality, and its reflection in the increasing practical overlap between criminal justice and immigration control systems.

In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, "e;illegal"e; migrants, and convicted criminals.

Disaster vulnerability is rapidly increasing on a global scale, particularly for those populations which are the historical clients of the social work profession.

Most scholars do not consider the long-term nature of caregiving, but rather focus on a specific developmental period (e.

This book looks at the symbolic side of globalization, development, and aging.

Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries.

Attachment-Based Social Work with Children and Adolescents is a wide-ranging look at attachment theory and research, its application to youth populations, and its natural fit with the social work profession.

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LGBT-Parent Families is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive examination of this underserved area.

This book considers the ability and capacity of the food supply system in Australia to provide food security for the ever-increasing domestic and international population in the face of growing challenges in production, resource supply and failures within the food system itself.

Social workers represent the largest body of addiction and mental health service providers, and there is a consistent need for up-to-date information.

Assisting someone with Alzheimer's disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family.

Although efforts have been made and continue to be made to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in the U.

This new Handbook addresses the state of the art in the application of operations research models to problems in preventing terrorist attacks, planning and preparing for emergencies, and responding to and recovering from disasters.

The events taking place in several of South Mediterranean countries since December 2010 show that multiple deprivations may be powerful drivers of political instability.

Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.

The statistics are disturbing: steadily rising numbers of sedentary overweight children and obese teens, and a generation looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents'.

Contemporary Clinical Practice: The Holding Environment Under Assault is devoted to the examination of contemporary social problems and their impact on the clinical process.

Full-scale political change affects every level of a society, but perhaps nowhere as strikingly as in the areas of crime policy and law enforcement.

Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work introduces the key ideas of evidence-based clinical social work practice and their thoughtful application.

Despite advances in detection and treatment, cancer remains a source of pain and distress to patients and of complex challenges to the loved ones caring for them.

Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes.

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Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling.

Caring for people with disabilities often becomes an all-encompassing responsibility for one or more family members.

Towards Estimating Entrainment Fraction for Dust Layers closely examines the factors that can affect the assessment of a dust hazard, and outlines a new strawman method designed to help practitioners estimate the fraction of the dust accumulations that can become airborne.

Many countries around the world are investing a great amount of resources in government IT initiatives.

In the Community-building process, citizens are the most invoked and feared, but at the same time the least known subject.

Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective.

Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another.

As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies.

Criminal enterprises are growing in sophistication.

This edited volume is an introduction to diverse methods and applications in operations research focused on local populations and community-based organizations that have the potential to improve the lives of individuals and communities in tangible ways.

Families are the cornerstone of Chinese society, whether in mainland China, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, or in the Chinese diaspora the world over.

Rural Families and Work focuses on the findings of the Rural Families Speak research study and the theoretical frameworks that are utilized to examine the context of rural low-income families' employment.

The majority of Latin Americans now live in countries that are governed by democratically elected governments on the political left, which is unprecedented in that region.

This book sets the questions of energy and the environment in the North in the global context and further addresses historical developments, views on energy taxation and tariffs, and effects of EU energy policy.

Caregivers living in rural areas face daunting obstacles.

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Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario.

The continuing prevalence of racial inequality and discrimination is well documented in Britain.

This book, Sustainable Urban Evolution, delves into the transformative potential of the 15-minute city concept, an innovative urban planning model crafted to address pressing issues like urban sprawl, environmental sustainability, resilience, and the demand for livable cities.