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Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades.

Handbook of Human Behaviour and the Social Environment is a compendium of new theories for all aspects of social work practice

Americans from Africa seeks to convey varying perspectives on the "Black Experience" in the United States and its controversial history

Criminologists have known for decades that income inequality is the best predictor of the local homicide rate, but why this is so has eluded them

Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about, this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz

In the early 1990s, the First National Bank of Keystone in West Virginia began buying and securitizing subprime mortgages from all over the country, and quickly grew from a tiny bank with just $100 million in assets to over $1.1 billion.

This book explores the phenomenon of anti-Zionism. It analyzes the explosive growth of traditional anti-Semitism among intellectuals and Muslims. It notes that anti-Zionism has established a presence even in Israel, where it frequently takes the form of intellectuals perversely apologizing for their own existence.

The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic, " writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis

After an eloquent and moving analysis of what he sees as the disillusion of themodern age, Lippmann posits as the central dilemma of liberalism its inability to find an appropriate substitute for the older forms of authority - church, state, class, family, law, custom - that it has denied

This is R. J. Rummel's fourth book in a series devoted to genocide and government mass murder, or what he calls democide

Following an opening essay on cultural history and why it should be studied, this volume begins with an analysis of the transformation of the Medieval mind as it evolved from the Black Death to the Thirty Years War. It also provides a biographical sketch of Friedell and his cultural milieu and analyzes his place in intellectual history.

Research on policy strategies, instruments, and styles incorporates a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes an overarching framework for the field, one that clearly shows how public policy instruments may be classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation plays in which instruments are used. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of catego...

Every modern democracy in our increasingly complex world must confront a fundamental problem: how should politicians manage police, ensuring that they act in the public interest while avoiding the temptation to utilize them in a partisan manner?

Cesare Beccaria's influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments is considered a foundational work in the field of criminology. The editors have based this translation on the 1984 Francioni text, the most exhaustive critical Italian edition of Dei delitti e delle pene. This edition is the last that Beccaria personally oversaw and revised.

Terrorism is often mistakenly thought of as a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. A History of Terrorism charts the history of political terror from nineteenth-century Europe to the multinational operations of Arab and other groups today. The question is: What is its true impact today and in the future?

By reintroducing the concept of the Intermarium into intellectual discourse the author highlights the autonomous and independent nature of the area. This is a brilliant and innovative addition to European Studies and to the study of world cultures.

Highlights the economic roots of management - the increase in visibility and the importance of accounting in the banking sector and how accounting is significant beyond its technical roles. This book offers insights into how management accounting practices, along with other organizational systems, play a role in analyzing implemented strategies.

Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances, Com munism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, originally published in 1955, is a recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart a perceived Communist conspiracy, including some of the very real liberties that can be destroyed in the process of a witch-hunt.

Examining evidence from social and behavioral science, history, and evolutionary biology, this book shows why fathers are deserting their families in record numbers. This book suggests concrete policies, and fresh ways of thinking and acting that helps fathers improve their marriages and family lives.

The drug trade is a growth industry in most major American cities, fueling devastated inner-city economies with revenues in excess of $100 billion. In this timely volume, Sam Staley provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of the consequences of current drug policies, focusing on the relationship between public policy and urban economic development and on how the drug economy has become thoroughly entwined in the urban economy.The black market i...