Shattering the Illusion

By Tracy J. Trothen
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Child Abuse, Law, Child Advocacy, Religion
Series: Editions SR

Shattering the Illusion is the first book to gather and comparatively analyze policies addressing child sexual abuse complaints in a selection of religious institutions in Canada. Although there is a substantial ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt & Brad McKenzie
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Policy, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy

Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, ...

Covering Niagara

Edited by Joan Nicks & Barry Keith Grant
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Law, Travel, Sports & Recreation
Series: Cultural Studies

Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what ...

Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Development Agenda

Edited by Jeremy de Beer
Subjects: Business & Economics, Sustainable Development, Political Science, Law, Economics, International Relations
Series: Studies in International Governance

The newly adopted World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda presents a real opportunity to revolutionize the international governance of intellectual property law and policy. ...

Big Picture Realities

Edited by Daniel Drache
Subjects: Law, Political Science, International Relations, Business & Economics, Economics

In the post-NAFTA era, Canada and Mexico face dramatic and irreversible changes from the Bush revolution in foreign public policy, the rising economic power of China and India, new concerns about border ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Samantha Brennan & Robert Noggle
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches ...

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...

Something to Cry About

By Susan M. Turner
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Political Science, Social Policy, Philosophy, Social Science, Social Work
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Why does our society think it is okay to hit children?

Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap ...

“Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada

Edited by James W. St.G. Walker
Subjects: Political Science, History, Canadian History, Law

Four cases in which the legal issue was “race” — that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy ...

Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe and Canada

Edited by Louis Knafla
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Law, Social Science

How is modern-day thinking about crime different from that of previous centuries? What are the similarities and differences in attitudes and systems between the civil and common law societies of Europe ...