Social and ethical issues

Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice.

Optimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of Shocks and Stresses examines the resilience measures being deployed within individual disciplines and sectors and how multi-stakeholder efforts can catalyze action to address global challenges in preparedness and disaster and hazard mitigation.

What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change?

The fifth title in Process' Self-Reliance series demystifies medical practices with a practical approach to twenty-first-century health and home medicine, particularly helpful in a financial downturn.

Las contribuciones que se incluyen en este libro exploran la categoría del mal en su uso fluctuante para marcar la alteridad en la América Latina colonial y contemporánea.

Originally published in 1981, this book analyses how development aid works in practice.

Bei der aufgeheizten politischen Debatte um sprachliche Grenzen und diskriminierende Wortverwendungen, stellt sich die Frage, welche Wörter man benutzen darf.

The Komagata Maru incident has become central to ongoing debates on Canadian racism, immigration, multiculturalism, citizenship and Indian nationalist resistance.

This volume explores the reasons behind, and impact of, the migration of South Asian nationals (from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and Maldives, Afghanistan and Myanmar) in the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain).

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North Americas poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouvers Downtown Eastside.

'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America.

This book contains the proceedings of the 31st International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies convened in Erice, Italy, on May 7-12, 2004.

This title was first published in 2003.

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apartChristophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "e;American society"e; one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal.

Recent years have witnessed major changes to the workplace across Europe.

Problem-Based Learning is a way of learning that presents a practical problem scenario in the context of which learning is conducted.

Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "e;Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?

We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico.

Alcohol consumption and alcohol-induced social and health problems are fast increasing, while 'safe' intake levels are revised downwards.

Children's nurses are faced with unique challenges when undertaking clinical skills, adapting their knowledge and practice for the physical and developmental age of their patients.

THE PIONEERING WORK IN HIV MEDICINE, COMPLETELY REVISED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2012The 17th edition of Bartlett's Medical Management of HIV Infection offers the best-available clinical guidance for treatment of patients with HIV.

This is the only text to provide comprehensive coverage of human growth and development, a requirement mandated by the Council of Rehabilitation Education (CORE) for a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and for Licensed Professional Counselor certification.

Homelessness strikes in all types of nations, from wealthy western nations to poor undeveloped countries.

An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation's unemployment system-who it helps, who it hurts, and what, if anything, we can do to make it fair.

Information forms the basis for education, and currently education is the only weapon available to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and to foster empathy toward individuals already affected by the disease.

This innovative collection opens a door into the rich history of animals in China.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

This book considers a wide range of key developments and key areas of debate in China's education system.

Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe.

Key to understanding drug misuse is an awareness of the full range of models that seek to define, explain and treat the problem.

Contesting the putative "e;even-handedness"e; of many introductory social science texts, this innovative book presents strong and provocative arguments on contemporary social issues that will stimulate readers to think critically.

Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive.

The chapters in this collection cover diverse aspects of the changing meanings and boundaries of race, migration and identity in the contemporary United States.

Warum stellen einige politische Gewalttäter ihre Taten öffentlich und spektakulär zur Schau?

Instrumente Sozialer Diagnostik in der Praxis einzusetzen, ist bereits Alltag von in der Suchthilfe tätigen Sozialarbeiter*innen.

In the routine spectrum of our lives, we inhabit the public sphere.

»Keine meiner verurteilten Gesprächspartnerinnen behauptet, sie sei unschuldig.

This book provides a unique assessment of the Nigerian healthcare system's different professions.

»Viele Jahre war ich überzeugter Vegetarier.

798 pages, 466 images, with 44 contributorsVolume three of Chadwick’s Child Maltreatment provides an overview of topics ranging from the risks of the Internet, family abduction, the legal and forensic aspects of child maltreatment cases, and the roles of physicians, nurses, social workers, and multidisciplinary teams.

2019 feiert Deutschland 100 Jahre Weimarer Verfassung und 70 Jahre Grundgesetz – und damit indirekt auch 100 bzw.

Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.