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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 ...

Covering Niagara

Edited by Barry Keith Grant & Joan Nicks
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 ...

Music-Making in U.S. Prisons

By Mary L. Cohen & Stuart P. Duncan
Subjects: Law, Music, Education

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that ...

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 ...

Surviving Incarceration

By Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Policy, Law, Social Services

Is prison a humane form of punishment and an effective means of rehabilitation? Are current prison policies, such as shifting resources away from rehabilitation toward housing more offenders, improving ...

Taking Responsibility for Children

Edited by Robert Noggle & Samantha Brennan
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 ...

Cruel But Not Unusual

Edited by Cathy Vine & Ramona Alaggia
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Gender Studies, Family & Relationships, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse

Picture family life in Canada. Does it include women or girls being murdered, on average, every two and a half days? Or the fact that intimate partner violence counts as nearly one-third of all reports ...

Child Welfare

Edited by Brad McKenzie & Kathleen Kufeldt
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, ...

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 ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

By J.C. Blokhuis, Katherine Covell, and R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...