Terrorism in Perspective combines original thematic overview essays with the best of the existing literature.

An inter-disciplinary and international handbook dealing with one of the central themes of social science, edited by two of the leading academics in race and ethnic studies.

Providing up-to-date research on the field of sexual victimization, this book examines the continuum of sex crimes as well as how the victims of such crimes have been perceived by the criminal justice system and society as a whole.

By helping students understand more fully the etiology, prevalence, treatment, policy issues and prevention of child maltreatment, the authors hope to further understanding of how to treat child maltreatment victims and how to prevent future child maltreatment.

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crises.

Written by one of the field's leading researchers, Disability and the Sociological Imagination is the first true undergraduate text for the relatively new and growing area of sociology of disability. The text discusses the major theorists, research methods, and bodies of knowledge that represents sociology's key contributions to our understanding of disability.

Moving beyond the narrow clinical perspective this book offers a view that takes into account the complex ways in which a batterer's abusive and controlling behaviors are woven into the fabric of daily life.

Offers readers an introduction to the methodology, etiology, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of family violence. Organized chronologically, this title includes chapters that cover child physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; abused and abusive adolescents; courtship violence and date rape; spouse abuse, battered women, and elder abuse.

With new chapters on ethnicity and immigration, and with material supported by 30 new case studies, this up to date resource provides students with an engaging - and international - introduction to the subject