Disproportionate Minority Contact: Current Issues and Policies focuses on a variety of topics related to minority overrepresentation and disparity in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. The goal of this edited volume is to provide an assortment of information on overrepresentation and disparity in one collection.
In this new edition, the authors have meticulously edited the cases to eliminate extraneous material and then explain how each case has contributed to the rules of law that govern schools today.
Elderly abuse and neglect is a social problem of increasing concern to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers worldwide. This book is a comprehensive overview of the current and growing issue of elderly abuse and neglect.
The new student-friendly seventh edition of Election Law: Cases and Materials fully covers developments in election law through 2021, including extensive coverage of recent partisan and racial gerrymandering challenges; campaign finance cases in the Citizens United era; and challenges to new voter identification laws and other voting restrictions.
Instead of prioritizing an individual actor's point of view, the book situates emotional labor within a web of relationships. That reorientation reveals how activists might reconsider the role of anger in their work and construct new practices that better support social change.
Employment Discrimination: A Practical Skills Guide and Learning Lab Manual prepares attorneys-in-progress to bridge the intellectual gap between substance and skill.