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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 ...

Youth, Education, and Marginality

Edited by Kate Tilleczek & H. Bruce Ferguson
Subjects: Education, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: SickKids Community and Mental Health

Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators are complemented by youth poetry, ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by Thomas Waldock
Foreword by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Social Work, Law, Child Advocacy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), commentators began to situate the evolution of the status of children within the context of the “property to persons” ...

Blocking Public Participation

By Byron Sheldrick
Subjects: Political Science, Law

Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly ...

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 ...

Debating Rights Inflation in Canada

By Dominique Clément
Subjects: Law, Social Science, Sociology
Series: Canadian Commentaries

Human rights has become the dominant vernacular for framing social problems around the world. In this book, Dominique Clément presents a paradox in politics, law, and social practice: he argues that ...

After Prison

Edited by Adrienne M.F. Peters & Rose Ricciardelli
Subjects: Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Sociology, Social Policy, Law

Employment for former prisoners is a critical pathway toward reintegration into society and is central to the processes of desistance from crime. Nevertheless, the economic climate in Western countries ...

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 ...