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What role can and should social work play in child welfare services? Responding to what many consider a crisis in the child welfare system, Critical Issues in Child ...

How did a piece of wood lead investigators in the Lindbergh kidnapping case to Bruno Hauptmann? Who, besides O. J. Simpson, knows something about the death of his ...

"What is this strange book" asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "that can bring the American presidency to its knees?" In this probing study of Kenneth W. ...

Simplify the Divorce Process A divorce can be the most painful and expensive experience of your life. Whether you use a lawyer or not, protect yourself by getting ...

Courts and Federalism examines recent developments in the judicial review of federalism in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Through detailed surveys of ...

How can injustice and oppression be overcome and prevented, regardless of who the victims are? What are the meanings, sources, and dynamics of these dehumanizing ...

Anarchy makes it easy for terrorists to set up shop. Yet the international community has been reluctant to commit the necessary resources to peacekeeping -- with ...

America's reputation for open immigration has always been accompanied by a desire to remove or discourage the migration of "undesirables." But recent ...

In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded ...

Brand focuses on three countries -- Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco -- with special attention to issues such as access to contraception and abortion, labor, pension, ...

When the American media published photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was ...

From 1932 to 2003, the New York Court of Appeals-the highest court in the state- decided crucial cases pertaining to the social and legal issues of the day. The ...

As social work students and practitioners encounter the term "human rights" with greater frequency, there is a pressing need for them to understand its ...

Although a range of program and policy responses to youth gangs exist, most are largely based on suppression, implemented by the police or other criminal justice ...

Richard A. Debs analyzes the classical Islamic law of property based on the Shari'ah, traces its historic development in Egypt, and describes its integration as a ...

Whether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigration, or welfare systems, social workers confront legal ...

From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of ...

To most, the flush of a toilet seems a routine motion to banish waste and ensure cleanliness: safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. ...

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Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws ...