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Transracial adoption is a controversial area of research and practice in child welfare. The authors, a sociologist and a social worker, have contributed much to its understanding through a series of studies that began in 1972 of white families that have adopted nonwhite (mostly black) children. This book reports on the latest phase of their research, which was based on interviews with most of the families and adoptees in the original sample. T...

Simon explores the diverse and changing roles of women over 25 years. Her book examines women in male-dominated professional roles, looks at immigrants' experience as new American women, discusses the types of crime women commit, and how they are treated by the criminal justice system and society.

This book describes the evolution of an increasingly independent women's movement committed to pursuing women's issues on all fronts. It provides historical analysis and rich documentation drawn from legal statutes and judicial decisions, demographic data, and public opinion polls, as well as biographies and other narrative accounts.

In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive represents the third edition of Women in Crime, a classic in the field by Rita J. Simon first published in 1975. This classic text will become an essential tool for teachers and researchers within criminology and criminal justice, and among the subfields within sociology, psychology, and ec...

This study describes how leading magazines and the "New York Times" covered and interpreted US immigration policy, and public attitudes about the impact of immigrants on the American economy and social fabric. Print media coverage of the issue (mainly adverse) is examined from 1880 onwards.

This timely study analyzes the issue of adoptions that cross racial and national lines, and assesses their success and appropriateness. The book's centerpiece is a comprehensive long-term study of the transracial adoption conducted by Rita Simon and Howard Altstein, the result of twenty years of research and analysis. The authors discuss the case often made against transracial adoption and explain the laws that govern these adoptions.

This third book in the Global Perspectives on Social Issues series grants scholars and policy makers an overview of the steps being taken by governments and educational organizations worldwide to increase the quality, standards, goals, and accessibility of education. Authors Rita J. Simon and Lisa Banks examine and compare the system of education, literacy rates, enrollment rates, types of public and private schools, years of compulsory educat...

From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers. This detailed account describes the motivations of Russian and Soviet Jews for leaving their homeland and their subsequent adjustments to ...

An examination of how the abortion issue is being faced around the world. After a brief historical introduction, it explores the legal statutes pertaining to abortion in selected countries, reports on public attitudes towards abortion, and discusses nation's policies regarding population control.

Examines a crucial public policy issue--abortion--in comparative perspective.

For over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents, African American, Hispanic, and Korean children, and Jewish Stars of David families, among others. This book summarizes their findings and compares them with other studies. It is an invaluable source of data on the number and frequency of transracial and intercountry adoptions...

A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich's work compares, across societies, the types of offenses punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment.

The contributors to this volume seek to prove in various ways that women are competent, responsible individuals who do not need special protections and dispensations from the state, nor do they need to have standards lowered for them to be able to compete effectively for jobs or acceptances to institutions of higher education.

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Why do some scholarly manuscripts get published while others do not? Who makes the decisions at scholarly journals and presses, and how do they reach those decisions? This volume brings together the experiences of editors of sociology, anthropology, political science, criminal justice, psychology, and other social science journals, and editors and directors of university and commercial presses that focus on the social sciences. Each chapter of...

The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the tenth in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries.

Das Buch befasst sich - aus juristischer Sicht - mit der komplexen Problematik der Marktöffnung in Netzsektoren der Telekommunikation. Unter Betrachtung der ökonomischen und technologischen Besonderheiten des deutschen Telekommunikationsmarktes wird dargestellt, inwieweit die europäische und die deutsche Regulierung die Marktöffnung untermauerte. Weil der Wettbewerb am wenigsten auf dem Infrastrukturmarkt ausgeprägt ist, werden die den Infrast...