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  • The Compassionate Court?

    Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs

    Laws subject people who perform sex work to arrest and prosecution. The Compassionate Court? assesses two prostitution diversion programs (PDPs) that offer to “rehabilitate” people arrested for street-based sex work as an alternative to incarceration. However, as the authors show, these PDPs often fail to provide sustainable alternatives to their mandated clients. Participants are subjected to ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Justice

    Progressive Lawyering, Low-Income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change

    While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what ... Read more

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  • Special Issue

    Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship

    Series Book 71 - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
    The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. They look at the production of knowledge about prostitution and trafficking by institutional stakeholders, and how legal responses to prostitution and trafficking are affected by class, race, ethnicity, and ... Read more

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  • Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World

    This textbook is designed to help students develop the nine core social work competencies outlined by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) in its 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Visit the 2022 EPAS website to learn more about these standards and competencies.Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World, Second Edition offers an engaging, stu... ... Read more

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  • Change Research

    A Case Study on Collaborative Methods for Social Workers and Advocates

    Collaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners with intimate knowledge of a community's goals and needs while equipping community advocates with vital skills for social change. Sharing the inspiring story of one such partnership, Corey Shdaimah, Roland Stahl, and Sanford F. Schram recount their efforts working with an affordable ... Read more

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  • In Our Hands

    The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

    Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families’ incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care—but although most developed countries offer state-funded child care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in prosperous times, ... Read more

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  • In Our Hands

    The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

    Series Book 8 - Families, Law, and Society
    A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families.Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women’s paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families’ incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care ... Read more

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  • Women Who Opt Out

    The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

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  • The Victimization of Women

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    In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and victim politics that disproportionately affect women. They examine the history of violence against women, the surrounding debates, the legal reforms, the related media and social-service responses, and the current science ... Read more

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    The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

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  • Putting Trials on Trial

    Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

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    Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded.In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent ... Read more

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