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Continuity and Change is significant as a study of contemporary social conditions and sources of conflict in Israel, as of future implications of these conflicts.

Examines the innovative placement of nonwhite adoptees with white parents. As well as reviewing recent court decisions involving race as a factor in child custody, the authors examine the research to date on this topic, including adoption policy and practice carried out by some adoption agencies.

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No area of criminal law has been the subject of more controversy than the insanity defense. The Insanity Defense is a clear assessment of this issue as it exists in the 1980s. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding and evaluating the legislative and judicial responses to the factors that have stirred this controversy. Because extremely complex issues are involved in the effort to formulate an insanity defense, Simon and Aaronson...

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.

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.

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.

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...