Violence and abuse in society

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

Currently enrolling approximately 900,000 poor children each year, Head Start has served 25 million children and their families since it was established 44 years ago.

Each year more than 25,000 youth age out of the American foster care system to face uncertain futures as young adults.

Public and academic interest in youth and community violence has grown with school shootings, horrific cases of child abuse, and reports of domestic abuse becoming regular news features.

Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population, and a substantial number face multiple, serious "e;poly-victimizations"e; during a single year.

Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems.

Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems.

Research has already been a significant factor in child welfare policy in recent years, but this essential new volume demonstrates that it has taken a leading role in the field to spur and guide change.

For centuries, societies have relied upon residential care settings to provide homes for children, and for much of that period a debate has raged over whether such settings are appropriate places for children to be raised.

Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media.

With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society.

An extensively revised version of the first edition, this text focuses on the practical foundational knowledge required to practice social work effectively in the complex and fast-changing world of services to children and their families.

Child maltreatment professionals from all disciplines struggle to find better ways of understanding and treating the families and children affected by maltreatment.

Drawing on one of the most comprehensive and representative studies of school violence ever conducted, Benbenishty and Astor explore and differentiate the many manifestations of victimization in schools, providing a new model for understanding school violence in context.

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death.

Today, one in every three Americans will be affected by trauma, and the most vulnerable among these victims are children.

Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society.

This second edition of Helping in Child Protective Services: A Competency-Based Casework Handbook is a comprehensive desk reference that serves as both a daily guide for workers and a training tool for supervisors and administrators.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century.

With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment.

Violence in the home is one of the most damaging and widespread of social problems.

Violence forms a constant backdrop to American history, from the revolutionary overthrow of British rule, to the struggle for civil rights, to the present-day debates over the death penalty.

Every fifteen seconds someone commits a crime of domestic violence in the United States, and most violators will be court-mandated to receive group treatment.

Child abuse policy in the United States contains dangerous contradictions, which have only intenstified as the public slowly accepted it as a middle class problem.

Various historians, philosophers, and social scientists have attempted to provide convincing explanations of the roots of violence, with mixed and confusing results.

Year after year, in poll after poll, crime tops the list of American anxieties.

According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world.

The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries.

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This illuminating work on one of today's most provocative issues provides all the necessary information for careful, critical thinking about the concept of sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment in the workplace, date rape, and domestic violence dominate the headlines and have recently sparked scholarly debates about the nature of the sexes.

Surrounding all major cities in the United States are numerous smaller communities collectively known as suburbia.

In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "e;walkdown.

Rape and other forms of sexual violence have always been a feature of war.

In the United States and Great Britain, 20-30% of all homicides involve the killing of a woman by a man.

Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not?

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians.

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the late twentieth century.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality.

On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality.

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Rape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women -- it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in all U.

Rape in marriage is a global problem affecting millions of women -- it is still legal in many countries and was only criminalized in all U.

Human beings have the most immature newborn and longest maturational schedule of any animal.

Understanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents.

What happens when enemies work to advance similar goals?