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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Theories of Youth Homicide -- Chapter 2: Studying Youth Homicide -- Chapter 3: The Role of Early Childhood Experiences -- Chapter 4: Lessons Learned in Adolescence -- Chapter 5: Homicides in Context -- Chapter 6: Charged and Convicted: Experiences in Custody and the Community -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Appendix A: Youth Homicide Study Questionnaire -- Appendix B: Youth Homicide Study Informed Consent Form -- References

Despite attending to social and economic justice issues, criminologists have said little about environmental justice, especially among underrepresented populations such as Native Americans. This review examines the social, economic, and environmental injustices Native Americans face by drawing on health and medical literature. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by (1) Kim S. Cameron, Jane E. Dutton, & Robert E. Quinn (Eds), Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Disciple (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003); (2) Howard Gardner, Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi, & William Damon, Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meets (New York: Basic, 2001); & (3) Martin E. P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness (New York: Free Press, 2002). 41 References.

Ian Shaw threads together advances in modern technology, practice skills and evidence-based practice, the history of scientific claims in social work practice, and the methods of social work research to demonstrate the significant role science can play in the management of human emotions and behavior. Shaw links scientific and social work knowledge through the core themes of quality evidence, critical learning and understanding, and the skilled evaluation of the subject.

"This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicate its relevance and applicability to decision-making, problem-solving and policy-making. Among the areas presented are space-and-time coordinates of social life; cognition and bias; group and network effects; the role of sanctions; organizational dynamics; and macro-changes associated with economic development. Finally, the authors look at the big picture of why society at large demands and needs social-science knowledge, and how the academy actually supplies relevant knowledge."--

As more scholars in Criminology become aware that the author behind the scholarship is becoming just as important as the work itself, they are casting an ever increasing eye at the personal context in which the authors are writing. Critical Voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into and within the discipline

The development of new approaches in recent times has brought about major changes in the study of social & political life. They reject almost everything that has been traditionally accepted, for which they have been severely criticized. But focusing on academic issues alone won't help much. We can understand the new approaches, their concerns, their rejection of science as model, their disdain for objectivity, universality, truth, relevance & so on, more adequately by relating them to the social conditions that obtain in the West. There are, however, major differences between these conditions & those that obtain in countries like India. & the kind of problems facing these countries can be addressed meaningfully by the more traditional approach than by the approaches developed recently. This is why, while it does not seem to have much future in the West, where it originated & continued for long, it may survive, even flourish, in countries like India. References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright 2006.]