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“richard gelles”

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  • Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

    by Richard J. Gelles ...
    This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a "Global Perspectives" call-out box for each of the chapters that explore an aspect of research, policy, and practice globally or in another nation; and a separate chapter that examines forms of intimate partner violence ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Out of Harm's Way

    Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

    by Richard Gelles ...
    Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Third Lie

    Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change

    by Richard J Gelles ...
    “I am from the government and I am here to help you” is one of the three biggest lies, or so the old joke goes. Richard J. Gelles, dean of social policy at University of Pennsylvania, explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don’t work in sector after sector…and never could work. He demonstrates how each creates its own bureaucracy to monitor participation in the program, an ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Child Abuse and Neglect

    Biosocial Dimensions - Foundations of Human Behavior

    Edited by Jane B. Lancaster, Richard J. Gelles ...
    Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior.Child Abuse and Neglect applies the biosocial perspective to child maltreatment and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Violence in the American Family

    by Murray A. Straus, Richard J. Gelles, Suzanne K. Steinmetz ...
    The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Behavioralism in Political Science

    by Heinz Eulau, Richard J. Gelles ...
    Changes in the thinking of science are usually accompanied by lively intellectual conflicts between opposing or divergent points of view. The clash of ideas is a major ingredient in the stimulation of the life of the mind in human culture. Such arguments and counter-arguments, of proofs and disproofs, permit changes in the arts and sciences to take place. Political science is not exempt from these ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    by Cathy Glass ...
    Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ moving memoir Will You Love Me now combined in a single volume with her heartbreaking title Daddy’s Little Princess, about a little girl who doesn’t understand what her father has done wrong.Daddy’s Little Princess tells the story of Cathy’s suspicions about there being something wrong with the relationship between ... Read more

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  • Democratic Policymaking

    An Analytic Approach

    by Charles Barrilleaux, Christopher Reenock, Mark Souva ...
    This introduction applies analytic models to policymaking challenges, equipping students with tools to evaluate core policymaking dilemmas. Students are introduced to the approaches of game theory, social choice theory, research design and causal inference. Key terms, along with current research, are highlighted to build an understanding of public policy study. Exercises and thought questions ... Read more

    $69.69 USD

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Measure of America, 2010-2011

    Mapping Risks and Resilience

    by Kristen Lewis, Sarah Burd-Sharps ...
    Series Book 9 - Social Science Research Council
    The Measure of America, 2010-2011, is the definitive report on the overall well-being of all Americans. How are Americans doing—compared to one another and compared to the rest of the world? This important, easy-to-understand guide will provide all of the essential information on the current state of America.This fully illustrated report, with over 130 color images, is based on the groundbreaking ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Parent Trap

    How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis

    by Nate G. Hilger ...
    How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. If they ask for help, they are made to feel inadequate; there is no ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Housing First

    Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives

    by Deborah Padgett, M.P.H, Benjamin Henwood, Ph.D., Sam Tsemberis, Ph.D. ...
    This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally. The authors report on the rise of a 'homeless industry' of shelters and transitional housing programs that the HF approach directly challenged by rejecting the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD