This book provides a much-needed survey of the discrimination and violence against women in developing countries, and identifies the literature and resources available about this topic.
Provides a balanced survey of existing literature on women throughout the third world.
Women in the Third World discusses topics such as the status of women, access to and enrollment in schools and universities, access to medical care, legal status, actions that husbands can take against their wives as permitted by law, and the extent to which women are considered property.
This volume also provides biographical sketches of noted women leade...
Single Parents offers an overview of this growing phenomenon, the problems faced by single-parent families, and their impact on society.
Topics include men and women as single parents, single-mother families and poverty, the legal system and single parents, gay and lesbian parents, moral issues, and the effects of growing up in a single-parent family. The experiences of single parents in other countries are also discussed.
This volume lists ...
This volume presents a balanced survey of children and violence in the United States-specifically those children who commit acts such as murder, rape, and assault.
The physical, cultural, social, economic, and legal aspects of this pressing issue are explored in detail in Violent Children. Topics include the causes of these acts and what is being done to cope with and prevent this violence. Statistical information, intervention programs, and ...
This work is an important new edition of a classic study--one of the few exhaustive examinations of childhood sexual abuse available--with 40 percent new material.
A thoroughly updated look at the world of gangs, charting their growth and development in the United States and worldwide, as well as the efforts to curb their expanding criminal enterprises.
