Product Description: The book covers the nature and origins of AIDS, its social dimensions and impact on people and institutions, and alternatives for reducing the continuing spread of the disease. McCoy and Inciardi offer a breadth of perspectives on important issues from a wide array of sources--without pitting these viewpoints against each other...read more

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The war on drugs has failed, the only construction boom is in building prisons, and our streets are peopled by homeless addicts. Is it time to legalize drugs? The authors argue the two sides of this issue, examining the connection between drugs and crime, the public health considerations, treatment on demand versus compulsory treatment, the history of drug use in the U.S., and the international situation. (view table of contents)

This volume documents the more innovative projects, programmes and advances that have become available in the United States for drug offenders. The contributors, outstanding experts in the field, examine the issues that arise in the effort to establish a more effective and humane system of dealing with the alarming rise of drug-related crimes.

Product Description: This collection of studies by experts on drug abuse treatment represents the state of the art in research examining what works best and why in a nationwide effort to improve and expand treatment to counteract the epidemic use of cocaine and the spread of AIDS...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Softcover, as shown. Small amount of underlining. Spine NOT creased, tight, clean & bright, w/only expected light cover shopwear. 1st ptg thus. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Street Kids, Street Drugs, Street Crime: An Examination of Drug Use and Serious Delinquency in Miami (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Serie)

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Product Description: Neurological signs or symptoms are present in approximately 20% of all chil­ dren admitted to the hospital. These may be the reason for admission or may be part of preexisting and often unrelated problems. In ambulatory practice, acute neurological disease is not seen as frequently, but issues relating to normal and abnormal development are constantly being faced...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Challenging Capital Punishment, Haas and Inciardi reveal the persistence of myth and misinformation in the death penalty debate. They suggest that the debate needs to be based on scholarly analysis and scientific scrutiny. They therefore bring together social scientists and legal scholars who assess the validity of objections to the death penalty...read more

Product Description: '...each chapter in this anthology cleary is excellent...a reading of Radical Criminology: The Coming Crises should be high on the agenda of almost any criminologist.' -- The Social Science Journal, Vol 20 No 2, April 1983