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  • Breaking Families, Making Families

    Adoption and Child Welfare in the 1990s

    by Mical Raz ...
    Families in the United States experience child abuse investigations, the removal of children from their homes, and the termination of parental rights at higher rates than peer countries. Yet this does not make them safer and comes at a cost. As a historian and practicing doctor, Mical Raz asks how American society came to accept punitive interventionist policies that prioritize termination of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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  • What's Wrong with the Poor?

    Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

    by Mical Raz ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon’s 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Abusive Policies

    How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way

    by Mical Raz ...
    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to “help end an American tradition” of child abuse. The message, relayed repeatedly over television and radio, urged abusive parents to seek help. Support groups for parents, including Parents Anonymous, proliferated across the country to deal with the seemingly burgeoning crisis. At the same time, an ever-increasing ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • It Still Takes a Candidate

    Why Women Don't Run for Office, Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox ...
    It Still Takes A Candidate serves as the only systematic, nationwide empirical account of the manner in which gender affects political ambition. Based on data from the Citizen Political Ambition Panel Study, a national survey conducted of almost 3,800 'potential candidates' in 2001 and a second survey of more than 2,000 of these same individuals in 2008, Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox find ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators

    American Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

    by William J. Bennett ...
    For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible portrait in numbers of who and where we are as a nation.First ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Other Divide

    by Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan ...
    There is little doubt that increasing polarization over the last decade has transformed the American political landscape. In The Other Divide, Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan challenge the nature and extent of that polarization. They find that more than party, Americans are divided by involvement in politics. On one side is a group of Americans who are deeply involved in politics and very ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Independent Politics

    How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

    by Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov ...
    The number of independent voters in America increases each year, yet they remain misunderstood by both media and academics. Media describe independents as pivotal for electoral outcomes. Political scientists conclude that independents are merely 'undercover partisans': people who secretly hold partisan beliefs and are thus politically inconsequential. Both the pundits and the political scientists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Disabled Rights

    American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality

    by Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer ...
    "Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace, and social integration. Disabled Rights provides an interdisciplinary approach to the history ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Return to Justice

    Rethinking our Approach to Juveniles in the System

    by Ashley Nellis ...
    Juveniles who commit crimes often find themselves in court systems that do not account for their young age, but it wasn’t always this way. The original aim of a separate juvenile justice system was to treat young offenders as the children they were, considering their unique child status and amenability for reform. Now, after years punishing young offenders as if they were adults, slowly the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Law and the Disordered

    An Explanation in Mental Health, Law, and Politics

    by George C. Klein ...
    In the 1970's, sociologists found that mentally disordered patients were routinely committed to state hospitals. By 2005, state hospital facilities had been emptied and, consequently, the patients for whom they cared for had been shuffled elsewhere by the system. Some of these patients were placed in private hospitals. However, for many, there was no asylum-there was only jail or the street.How ... Read more

    $60.99 USD