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  • The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

    Helping Profession Strategies for Engagement and Support

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.Gun violence in the United States is a salient national problem with virtually no day that goes by without it occurring. Where gun violence occurs, in turn, must be ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence

    Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these events and spaces reflects on the state of urban gun violence. Understanding this context serves to inform us on how best to address ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • When the Lord's House Closes

    Church Repurposing and Urban Community Practice

    de Melvin Delgado, PhD ...
    Functioning churches are an integral part of a community, not only for the active members of a congregation, but in providing myriad other services to the broader population - from food, housing, and other charitable outreach to hosting local events, to serving as election polling locations. So what happens when a church closes? Declining religious affiliation, accelerated modernization, and a ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

  • Urban Gun Violence

    Empty Lots, Green Spaces, and Other Ecologically Focused Interventions

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Ecologically-focused interventions have taken center stage in addressing a range of social problems. This book synthesizes the latest research and theoretical advances of these approaches to offer multiple urban green revitalization strategies for combatting gun violence that is primarily impacting African-American/Black, Asian-American, and Latinx urban communities across the nation. Solutions ... Leer más

    $34.79 USD

  • The Silent Epidemic of Gun Injuries

    Challenges and Opportunities for Treating and Preventing Gun Injuries

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Gun injuries are a social and public health phenomenon that has profound consequences on victims, their social network, and neighborhood. Deaths resulting from gun violence represent just one piece of this puzzle while injuries (visible and invisible) make up a considerable other part. Solving such a large and multi-faceted public health issue is an arduous task. The Silent Epidemic of Gun ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • They Are Rioting in Sanctuary Cities!

    Countering the Emerging Anti-Sanctuary Movement

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    While the concept of cities and places of refuge, or sanctuary cities, is as ancient as history itself, the past few years has given rapid rise to a new, related phenomenon in the U.S.: the anti-sanctuary city movement. As of 2018, over 500 U.S. municipalities and several states have adopted anti-sanctuary city policies.How do we explain the rapid rise of this movement?This book examines the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century

    Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of meeting the demands of the increasing number of elderly Latinos. Working from conceptual frameworks, case studies, and examples, this book provides you with a demographic picture of Latino elders and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Youth-Led Community Organizing

    Theory and Action

    de Melvin Delgado, Lee Staples ...
    Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century

    Revitalizing and Broadening Youth Development

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future.In response to an unprecedented array of challenges, policy makers and care providers in the field of youth dvevelopment have begun to expand the field both practically and conceptually. This expansion has thus far ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Urban Gun Violence

    Self-Help Organizations as Healing Sites, Catalysts for Change, and Collaborative Partners

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    Gun violence occurs in urban areas more than it does anywhere else, and youth of color in these areas are disproportionately impacted in the United States. How can we approach this? What can we do to stop this from happening in the first place? In addition to trying to bolster the barriers one must cross to acquire a gun, we must also focus on the communities struggling with this abuse. In this ... Leer más

    $62.09 USD

  • Urban Youth Trauma

    Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Trauma has unfortunately become an all-too familiar occurrence in the lives of children, with a majority of youth experiencing a traumatic event before the age of 18. With the rise of school shootings and recent March for Our Lives, this timely book will address intervention strategies for social workers and counselors to combat this negative phenomenon. Urban Youth Trauma focuses on urban ... Leer más

    $55.09 USD

  • State-Sanctioned Violence

    Advancing a Social Work Social Justice Agenda

    de Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Interpersonal Violence
    The helping professions and social scientists traditionally seek concepts and paradigms that can be used in shaping research and services focused on marginalized populations in the United States. Various perspectives have garnered attention across disciplines with intersectionality as a recent, salient example. However, state-sanctioned violence--built upon the foundation established by ... Leer más

    $59.39 USD