Social and ethical issues

Designed and produced by North American Aviation in response to a British order for aircraft in 1940, the P-51 Mustang went on to become one of the most successful aircraft in the Second World War and beyond.

Providing in-depth insight into different types of knowledge and skills partnerships in youth justice, this book illustrates the importance of collaborative working between academics and professionals, drawing on empirical research and practice examples to present expert analysis of knowledge/evidence production and utilisation in youth justice.

Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma in the years after gaining statehood, garnering fame along the way.

Success knows no colour, unless you are Black, in which case you better be prepared to work Twice as Hard to achieve and progress your career.

In today's contentious political environment surrounding abortion, clinicians, counselors and social workers need a clear framework for providing skilled, compassionate decision counseling.

Having gone through 30 years of development, the new edition of this highly-regarded classic is the most trusted companion for understanding and promoting the potential for social work with disabled people.

When the Supreme Court overturned Louisville's local desegregation plan in 2007, the people of Jefferson County, Kentucky, faced the question of whether and how to maintain racial diversity in their schools.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences.

Psychosis and the Traumatised Self explores what it is like to experience psychosis for individuals with histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse.

How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person?

Feminists have always perceived wife abuse as just one of many manifestations of the unequal division of power between men and women.

This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America.

Redefinitions of EU borders (enlargements, Brexit), geopolitical challenges (conflicts, migrations, terrorism, environmental risks) and the economic and financial crises have triggered debates on the common values that hold European countries and citizens together, justify public action and ensure the sustainability of European governance.

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health; the effect of unemployment on health; the relationship between income and health; how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.

The concept of risk is one of the most suggestive terms for evoking the cultural character of our times and for defining the purpose of social research.

This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Interpret the hidden meaning of family roles to help children at risk!

Doctors and patients, inter-professional rivalries, how sociologists might tackle the study of vital topics in health - all these are enduring themes in sociology and medicine.

Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years.

This book focuses on inclusion and governance agenda on the issue of migration within a framework of South-South cooperation.

The large federal role in the drug treatment system was substantially reduced in the early 1980s, undercutting its ability to help communities respond to new challenges such as the crack-cocaine epidemic and the growing violence in drug markets.

This book represents a valuable interdisciplinary contribution created to fill an existing gap in the field of health economics and healthcare systems.

Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy.

This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting.

This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations.

As modern society's routine sequestration of death and grief is increasingly replaced by late-modern society's growing concern with existential issues and emotionality, this book explores grief as a social emotion, bringing together contributions from scholars across the social sciences and humanities to examine its social and cultural aspects.

First published in 1969, this volume presents a survey of the contemporary national education system in Latin American countries.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.

This moving memoir tells the story of how a young woman descended into the world of prostitution and drug abuse, yet found the strength to rebuild her life.

Emotional, physical and sexual abuse in childhood can result in a range of problems and lead to long-term difficulties that make life a struggle.

Die Rolle der Wissenschaft hat während der Covid-19-Pandemie ungewöhnlich heftige und polarisierende Debatten ausgelöst.

In the 1990s the voluntary and charity sector is being forced to become an increasingly important provider of health and social welfare in Britain.

The Third Edition of Terrorism in Perspective, like its two successful predecessors, takes a broad-based approach that emphasizes the historical, cultural, political, religious, social, and economic factors that underlie an understanding of both global and domestic terrorism.

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790.

Wellness has become synonymous with yoga, meditation, and other forms of self-care.

In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Robin Marie Averbeck offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured liberal thought and action in postwar America.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

Social cohesion has become an important public goal in many countries across the globe, not only in the Western hemisphere, but also in Asia.

A thorough and timely investigation of both well-established and emerging crime and punishment issues, this book provides readers with compelling examples of how different countries around the world confront these problems.

Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjivar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region.

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of "e;gray mist killings.

'WAYB remains an indispensable companion for anyone seriously committed to the profession of author, whether full-time or part-time; and as always it is particularly valued by those who are setting out hopefully on that vocational path.