Social Policy category: 9249 books
America's Longest War
Rethinking Our Tragic Crusade Against Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
America's war on drugs. It makes headlines, tops political agendas and provokes powerful emotions. But is it really worth it? That’s the question posed by Steven Duke and Albert Gross in this groundbreaking book. They argue that America’s biggest victories in the war on drugs are the erosion of...
by J. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending women-only groups, these women are able to confront the double standard that makes recovery from addiction especially difficult.
HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa
Are You Human?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.
Managing Global Health Security
The World Health Organization and Disease Outbreak Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's prospects for managing global health security now and into the future.
Women and the Politics of Sterilization
A UNC Press Short, Excerpted from Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In 2003, North Carolina became the third U.S. state to apologize and the first to call for compensation to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. The stories were inspired in...
Weaponizing Maps
Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Maps play an indispensable role in indigenous peoples’ efforts to secure land rights in the Americas and beyond. Yet indigenous peoples did not invent participatory mapping techniques on their own; they appropriated them from techniques developed for colonial rule and counterinsurgency campaigns,...
Blossom
What Scotland Needs to Flourish
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots through the stories of people I’ve had the good fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and resilient people on the planet. They’ve had to be. Some have transformed their parts of Scotland. Some have tried and failed. But all have something...
Young Migrants
Exclusion and Belonging in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.
Commons, Sustainability, Democratization
Action Research and the Basic Renewal of Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book presents theoretical discussions and practical examples of Action Research from Scandinavia, Latin America and Africa, primarily dealing with how to combine nature conservation and management with local democratic community development, seeing the renewal of Commons as a way to transcend the present dichotomy between these two dimensions.
What I Have Learned…
(Or Nonagenarian Natterings)
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
What I Have Learned... (or Nonagenarian Natterings) (Trafford, 2012) might be considered a sequel to my Through the Eyes of a Concerned Liberal published in 2004. This sequel explains what I believe about various aspects of life and living (i.e., why I believe what I do; and what I sought to do about...
Children, Rights and Modernity in China
Raising Self-Governing Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.
Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone
Laboring in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions...
by Edward J. Latessa, Shelley L. Listwan, Deborah Koetzle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book offers criminologists and students an evidence-based discussion of the latest trends in corrections. Over the last several decades, research has clearly shown that rehabilitation efforts can be effective at reducing recidivism among criminal offenders. However, researchers also recognize...
by Daniel J. Solove
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011