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The Third Lie

Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change

By: Richard J Gelles

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The Third Lie

Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change

By: Richard J Gelles

Richard Gelles explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don’t work in sector after sector and why they should be replaced with a universal entitlement at lower cost.

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1315417049

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Behind Closed Doors

Violence in the American Family

By: Murray A. Straus,Richard J. Gelles,Suzanne K. Steinmetz

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Behind Closed Doors

Violence in the American Family

By: Murray A. Straus,Richard J. Gelles,Suzanne K. Steinmetz

The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to inflict it on their family members. The authors explore the relationship between spousal abuse and child abuse as well as abuse between siblings, violence by children against their parents, and the causes and effects of verbal abuse. Taken together, their analysis provides a vivid picture of how violence is woven into the fabric of family life and why the hallmark of family life is both love and violence. This is a comprehensive, highly readable account of interest to both the professional and the lay-person on an important topic, which concerns the social well-being of us all.

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1351298666

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Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

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Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

This Fourth Edition of Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families updates a best-selling core text in the field of intimate violence and child maltreatment. New features include: a "Global Perspectives" call-out box for each of the chapters that explore an aspect of research, policy, and practice globally or in another nation; and a separate chapter that examines forms of intimate partner violence other than male-to-female. Bidirectional intimate partner violence and female-to-male violence remain contentious topics in the field of intimate partner violence and rarely receive extensive coverage in books or texts; Chapter 7 includes a new examination of brain and behavior research and theory as it can be applied to intimate partner violence. Further, Chapter 8 adds a much-expanded examination of the most important federal policies pertaining to child welfare and child maltreatment. The inclusion of all forms of relationship and intimate violence continues to be a distinctive feature of the book, which is a must-have for both undergraduate and graduate students studying social work, family studies, criminology, nursing, sociology, and/or psychology.

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Oxford University Press

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0195381734

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Intimate Violence in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

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Intimate Violence in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

Gelles explains theories of intimate violence and contributing social factors, exploring major controversies in the study and treatment of family and intimate abuse. The main focus is on physical abuse, but other forms of victimisation are covered.

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Out of Harm's Way

Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

By: Richard J. Gelles

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Out of Harm's Way

Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

By: Richard J. Gelles

Despite efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and wellbeing of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way presents four specific changes that would lead to a more effective system"--

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Intimate Violence in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

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Sociology

A Brief Introduction

By: Richard T. Schaefer,Robert P. Lamm

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Sociology

A Brief Introduction

By: Richard T. Schaefer,Robert P. Lamm

By focusing closely on the basic ideas behind sociological theory and research, this concise text provides a firm knowledge base without overwhelming students with nonessential material. Because theories and research methods are applied to substantive areas throughout the text, students develop the kind of meaningful understanding often acquired only through more expensive, full-length texts.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0070550336

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Sociology : an Introduction

By: Richard T. Schaefer

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Sociology : an Introduction

By: Richard T. Schaefer

This brief 4-colour paperback text covers all of the major topics in Sociology that instructors would cover in a 12- to 14-week course. Instructors will welcome the integration of race and gender issues throughout the text. Cross-cultural coverage is extensive. It is accompanied by a first rate ancillary package, including an innovative electronic study guide. This text will appeal to students and instructors who find they are simply unable to work through an introductory Sociology text with 20 chapters or more. Videos available - contact local sales rep.

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Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles

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Intimate Violence in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles,Claire Pedrick Cornell

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Intimate Violence in Families

By: Richard J. Gelles,Claire Pedrick Cornell

For the latest information on family violence, there is no better resource than the second edition of this landmark volume. Thoroughly revised and updated, the volume examines the significant changes in our understanding of family violence, its antecedents, its correlates and its consequences since 1985. Topics covered include long-term effects of violence on survivors, arrest as a deterrent to violence, wife-battering, sibling violence, child and elder abuse; the volume also discusses some well-known cases, such as the Steinberg//Nussbaum trial.

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The Third Lie

Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change

By: Richard J Gelles

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The Third Lie

Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change

By: Richard J Gelles

“I am from the government and I am here to help you” is one of the three biggest lies, or so the old joke goes. Richard J. Gelles, dean of social policy at University of Pennsylvania, explains why government programs designed to cure social ills don’t work in sector after sector...and never could work. He demonstrates how each creates its own bureaucracy to monitor participation in the program, an entrenched administrative apparatus whose needs supersede those for whom the program was designed. Against this, he contrasts universal programs such as the GI Bill, Social Security, and Medicare, the most successful, sustained government programs ever established. Gelles’s provocative, controversial proposal for a universal entitlement to replace a raft of lumbering social programs should be read by all in social services, policy studies, and government.

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1315417030

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Behind Closed Doors

Violence in the American Family

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Richard J. Gelles,Suzanne K. Steinmetz

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Behind Closed Doors

Violence in the American Family

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Richard J. Gelles,Suzanne K. Steinmetz

Behind Closed Doors is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to inflict it on their family members. The authors explore the relationship between spousal abuse and child abuse as well as abuse between siblings, violence by children against their parents, and the causes and effects of verbal abuse. Taken together, their analysis provides a vivid picture of how violence is woven into the fabric of family life and why the hallmark of family life is both love and violence. This is a comprehensive, highly readable account of interest to both the professional and the layperson on an important topic, which concerns the social well-being of us all.

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Out of Harm's Way

Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

By: Richard Gelles

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Out of Harm's Way

Creating an Effective Child Welfare System

By: Richard Gelles

Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the needs of the child and those of the parents, often failing both. Clearly answering this question is the most important, yet unaddressed, issue facing the child welfare system. - Decisions. The key task for a caseworker is not to provide services but to make decisions regarding child abuse and neglect, case goals, and placement; however, practitioners have only the crudest tools at their disposal when making what are literally life and death decisions. - The Perverse Incentive. Billions of dollars are spent each year to place and maintain children in out-of-home care. Foster care is meant to be short-term, yet the existing federal funding serves as a perverse incentive to keep children in out-of-home placements. - Aging out. More than 20,000 youth age out of the foster care system each year, and yet what the system calls "emancipation" could more accurately be viewed as child neglect. After having spent months, years, or longer moving from placement to placement, aging-out youth are suddenly thrust into homelessness, unemployment, welfare, and oppressive disadvantage. The chapters in this book offer a blueprint for reform that eschews the tired cycle of a tragedy followed by outrage and calls for more money, staff, training, and lawsuits that provide, at best, fleeting relief as a new complacency slowly sets in until the cycle repeats. If we want, instead, to try something else, the changes that Gelles outlines in this book are affordable, scalable, and proven.

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The Book of David

How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives

By: Richard J. Gelles

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The Book of David

How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives

By: Richard J. Gelles

Using the true story of a murdered child as a point of departure, a leading expert on family violence argues that society's first priority must be protecting children rather than preserving families.Richard Gelles was once one of the most widely published and vocal defenders of family preservation: the social policy of keeping troubles families together as a primary goal. He then ran into the true and tragic case of David Edwards, an infant who was murdered by his mother after falling through the chasms in the child welfare system.David's story convinced Gelles that the system must change. Nearly half the children who are killed by their parents each year are killed after they have come to the attention of child welfare agencies. These children must be protected by getting them out of harm's way. That means a radically new child welfare system must be developed. The first priority must be to protect children rather than preserve families. This hard-hitting book critically examines family preservation programs and argues that they do not work. Gelles goes beyond mere criticism of the child welfare system to suggest specific ways the system should be changed, such as eliminating mandatory reporting of abuse, giving better training to caseworkers, and separating the investigation of abuse from case management.

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0465053963

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Physical Violence in American Families

Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Richard J. Gelles

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Physical Violence in American Families

Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families

By: Murray Arnold Straus,Richard J. Gelles

The informative and controversial findings in this book are based on two path-breaking national surveys of American families. Both show that while the family may be the central locus of love and support, it is also the locus of risk for those who are physically assaulted. The book provides a wealth of information on gender differences and similarities in violence, and on the effects of gender roles and inequality. Two landmark American studies of violence from the National Family Violence survey form the basis of this book. Both show that while the family may be the central locus of love and support, it is also the locus of risk for those who are being physically assaulted. This is particularly true for women and children, who are statistically more at risk of assault in their own homes than on the streets of any American city. Physical Violence in American Families provides a wealth of information on gender differences and similarities in violence, and on the effects of gender roles and inequality. It is essential for anyone doing empirical research or clinical assessment.

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The Third Lie

The Third Lie

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

Intimate Violence in Families

Intimate Violence in Families

Out of Harm's Way

Out of Harm's Way

Intimate Violence in Families

Intimate Violence in Families

Sociology

Sociology

Sociology : an Introduction

Sociology : an Introduction

Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families

Intimate Violence in Families

Intimate Violence in Families

The Third Lie

The Third Lie

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

Out of Harm's Way

Out of Harm's Way

The Book of David

The Book of David

Physical Violence in American Families

Physical Violence in American Families

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