Written by Captain Lou Albano, the "godfather of wrestling," this book tells you the history of the stars, leagues, and moves of pro-wrestling. It includes updated coverage of WCW and WWF, of wrestling as a business, and of today's hottest stars and biggest promoters. If you want to be a wrestler, this book tells you how to get started in the ...
"Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem."Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and well-being. Maltreatment ...
In recent years the life-course perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Life Course: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory ...
This work focuses on the aspects of white-collar crime. The study is based on interviews of local prosecutors and how they respond (if at all) to corporate crime within a community context.
"White Collar Crime" is an introduction to the subject from an opportunity-based perspective. This perspective focuses on the role of opportunity in structuring the frequency and type of white collar crime. All such crime occurs because offenders perceive that there is an opportunity to act, and the authors focus on this because they feel it is a ...
Provides a general introduction to systemic linguistics in the form of essays written by leading figures in the field. These are, with one exception, not previously published, and taken together they constitute a comprehensive coverage of the diverse interests of current systemic theory.
This work focuses on the aspects of white-collar crime. The study is based on interviews of local prosecutors and how they respond (if at all) to corporate crime within a community context.
The term 'white-collar crime' refers to crimes committed by people in respectable social and professional positions, who commit a crime in the course of doing their job or by using the advantage of their position. The crimes perpetrated are generally nonviolent, occur in commercial or business settings, and are intended solely to generate an ...
"Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research" is a series of volumes that features scholarly work on the frontiers of interdisciplinary research on families and family life. Volume 2, "Families, Crime and Criminal Justice" reflects this pioneering orientation by bringing together new empirical research that examines the various ways that families ...
An informative guide to the roots of modern China and the key challenges and opportunities that face that nation today. -- Explores whether China will play an important role as world leader or world pariah in the future! A lucid presentation of China's contemporary culture and society and the modern historical landmarks that have influenced it are ...
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