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What is happening to the social fabric of America?Children are afraid to go to school for fear that another lunatic will decide to shoot up the student body.School administrators refuse to acknowledge that school security is their responsibility.Parents ignore their children who can access internet at the flick of a wrist to find out detailed instructions on bomb assembly.TV movies and video games encourage violence.The NRA says guns are not the problem - people are.Meanwhile, the country is led by a president no one will ever mistake for a role model nor can trust to ever tell the truth about anything.Given this atrocious scenario, no one should be surprised that youth violence lurks behind every school house door.

This easy-to-use bibliography groups over 1500 citations, many with abstracts from the journal literature, books, government reports and edited collections, under the headings of: School Safety, School Violence, Guns and Youth,Internet Violence, Parental Neglect and Societal Responsibility. ... Read more

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Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they do today: the nature of female criminality attracted considerable attention and preoccupied those trying to provide for women within the penal system.Zedner's rigorously researched study examines the extent to which gender-based ideologies influenced attitudes to female criminality. ... Read more

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The bibliography begins with a section devoted to research strategies and a definition of the field and concludes with an assessment of the effects that this field is having on the legal system. Entries are arranged by subject; annotations describe contents, depth of coverage, and scope. Cross indexing and key words are provided to assist the researcher. Because feminist jurisprudence requires a multidisciplinary approach, a selection of related materials from other disciplines as well as a section devoted to international sources are included. It is fully indexed. ... Read more

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Walters provides an excellent historical overview of human rights in the Western tradition and delineates the global context of human rights in the twentieth century. The scope of English language works included ranges from 1982 to 1994, and the bibliography avoids using specific rights as the main organizational principle. Instead, Chapter One begins with key encyclopedia resources and entries, dictionaries, anthologies, readers, and textbooks useful for teaching at the college or university level. Remaining chapters include: the Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights; Cultural Relativism and Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Human Rights and Religious Traditions; Basic Human Needs, Development, and Security; Human Rights and Foreign Policy; International Law, Organization, and Human Rights; Group Rights and Individual Rights; Women and Human Rights; Emerging Human Rights issues ; Teaching Human Rights and Genocide; and Researching Human Rights. Author, subject, and geographical indexes provide the researcher with ready access to articles published in collections, to specific rights, to human rights ideas and institutions, and continent and country-specific human rights concerns and analyses. Appendixes: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for the Electronic Community of Learners. This bibliography is indispensable for students, activists, and general readers, and scholars seeking key human rights resources across an immense range of material drawn from many disciplines. ... Read more

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This volume provides a guide to the ever-expanding drug-related literature. It takes a multidiciplinary, multinational approach, which critically assesses the current social science literature on this complex and contentious issue in US-Latin American relations. ... Read more

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The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Bookand Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly valuewhich relate to the history of the printed book, to the history ofarts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social andcultural environment, involved in its production, distribution,conservation and description. ... Read more

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The Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: An Annotated Bibliography is comprised of over 2,300 annotations on a wide array of issues and topics germane to the subject of preventing the atrocities of genocide and managing these conflicts when they do arise. Totten brings together in one comprehensive collection the research and findings in various fields, such as political science, sociology, history, and psychology, to enable specialists in genocide studies, peace studies, and conflict resolution to benefit from the insights of a diverse range of scholars and to foster an understanding and appreciation of how the various components of genocide studies connect. Among the topics included are: key conventions, international treaties, and covenants; genocide early warning signals and forecasting; risk data bases; sanctions; peacekeeping missions; intervention; conflict resolution; genocide early-warning systems and monitoring; ad hoc tribunals; the International Criminal Court; realpolitik vis-a-vis the issue of genocide prevention and intervention; key non-governmental agencies; and key governmental and U.N. bodies working on these important issues.

In addition to the annotations, Totten frames the bibliography with a major essay that introduces the reader to the subject of prevention and intervention of genocide, raising a host of critical issues regarding the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of various approaches germane to issues of managing these conflicts. ... Read more