Social and ethical issues

The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity.

Sexual Offending and Mental Health draws together theoretical, clinical and mental health issues for the range of professionals working in the community and in-patient settings with sex offenders and those who have behaved in sexually inappropriate ways.

From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its checkered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change.

Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container.

In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines Americas ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness.

Self-harm is a growing problem in children and young people but it can be hard to understand and difficult to recognise.

That children need nature for health and well-being is widely accepted, but what type of nature?

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India.

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

The information age is upon us and, with it, a new era of human services has emerged.

With thorough coverage of inequality in health care access and practice, this leading textbook has been widely acclaimed by teachers as the most accessible of any available.

Today, millions of youth across the country do not have access to a stable home.

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations, similarities, and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality.

Demonstrating that public health and prevention program development is as much art as science, this book brings together expert program developers to offer practical guidance and principles in developing effective behavior-change curricula.

A clear and comprehensive introduction for students studying key regulatory challenges posed by technologies in the twenty-first century.

Reforming Sex reconstructs the complicated history of a movement that has been romanticized as the harbinger of 1960s sexual radicalism and demonized as a precursor to Nazi racial policy, but mostly buried and obscured by Nazi bookburnings and repression.

Everyday Coercion explores men's routine use of sexual coercion toward women in 'everyday' social and dating interactions, and how such sexual coercion has been normalized within a landscape of heteronormativity, rape culture, and binarized gender roles.

This book provides and accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice.

This book addresses issues related to school inclusion from the perspective of systemic inclusion.

This work assesses the various meanings attached to calls for police reform in the public discourse on social media, providing readers with a greater appreciation of the assumptions, empirical claims, and rhetorical nuances that underpin the current dialogue about police policy.

This book examines the violation of property rights in the two World Wars and in the interwar period centering on three keywords: sequestration, confiscation and restitution.

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax.

For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "e;problems"e;.

Recent years have revealed the different experiences of abortion in the UK and the USA.

This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media.

During the First World War, nearly half a million immigrant draftees from forty-six different nations served in the U.

Those who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare.

At a time when families break up and employment is often short-term, society is increasingly forced to operate against a background of insecurity.

In the 1980s there was growing interest in the topic of ageing and learning disabilities, for two principal reasons.

In einer Welt, geprägt von Krisen und Unsicherheiten, tritt Patrick Legun als strahlendes Beispiel für Nächstenliebe und Mitgefühl hervor.

Essential Nursing Care for Children and Young People is the definitive guide for all nursing and healthcare students and professionals caring for children and young people.

Drug problems have a profound impact on families.

An American expatriate hopes to quell his grief for a long lost son in the stillness of his photographs of the Dodecanese Islands.

A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans.

In a work that will significantly influence the political discussion with respect to race and class politics, one of the country's most influential sociologists focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it.

Why we are poor and others are so very rich, indeed, why they are so rich when we are still very poor.

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law.

This timely book on social work and antisemitism fills an important gap in social work education and in the profession.

The tireless resistance of local communities fighting for ownership of America's third largest water system.

This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency.

This book probes into the beedi industry, a highly gendered and class-divided unorganised sector in India.

What are we actually talking about when we talk of flexibility in organizational settings?

Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States-the most affluent country in the world-this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

This book critically examines how polycrisis is recontextualised and (ab)used in contemporary discourse from across Europe.

Microaggressions have been identified as a common and troubling cause of low retention and poor psychotherapy outcomes for people of color.