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The hypothesis of this study is that increased social stress, indexed by rising unemployment levels and crime rates, will lead to a greater popularity of crime series on television. It is tested by correlating national trends over time for the viewing of crime series, unemployment rates and crime rates in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Some support for the hypothesis is found in both countries, although not when individual-level experience of unemployment and crime series viewing is examined in American survey data. Suggestions for further research are presented.

Social work, end-of-life and palliative care -- Death and dying : awareness and uncertainty -- Truth and hope : communication at the end of life -- Engaging and assessing in end-of-life care -- Intervention in end-of-life social work -- Grief and bereavement : ideas and interventions -- Multiprofessional end-of-life care -- Ethical and value issues for end-of-life social work -- Group and macro interventions

• Summary: This article reports an audit of people considered for transfer from a hospice to a nursing home for end-of-life care and discusses implications for patients, families and staff. • Findings: Moving patients to nursing homes at the end of their lives is often distressing for both patients and families and in many cases patients die within a short time of transfer. Few patients are actually transferred although many more are asked to face this possibility often creating unnecessary anxiety. This may have adverse consequences for family members' bereavement. • Applications : There is a weak evidence base for transferring patients from hospices to nursing homes. Palliative care services assume a short in-patient stay to ration an expensive scarce resource. Assessment with social work contributions identifying complex emotional, family and bereavement consequences may allow multidisciplinary teams to justify longer hospice stays by identifying more complex needs to justify better substantive equality between patients.