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When Sons and Daughters Kill ParentsUnderstanding Parricide is the most comprehensive book available about juvenile and adult sons and daughters who kill their parents. Dr. Heide moves far behind the statistical correlates of parricide by synthesizing the professional literature on parricide in general, matricide, patricide, double parricides, and...

A Very Short IntroductionThe concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the...

The story of China&'s spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the country&'s equally dramatic, though not always equally successful, social policy transition. Between the mid- 1990s and mid-2000s---the focal period for this book---China&'s central government went a long way toward consolidating the social policy framework that...

A Handbook for School Social WorkersSchool social workers engage in different forms of consultation on a daily basis, yet they rarely think about or describe this work as &'consultation.&' Further, school social work practice research finds that consultation is among the most frequently performed practice tasks, yet consultation is rarely defined...

Victims&' Rights and Advocacy at the International Criminal Court is the first detailed analysis of the newly-recognized right of victims to participate in the trials of their accused abusers. Author T. Markus Funk draws on his extensive background in international criminal law and litigation to walk the reader through this unique - and, indeed,...

If you&'re feeling overwhelmed by a sea of revision, let OUP&'s Questions and Answers series keep you afloat! Written by experienced examiners, the Q&As offer advice on what to expect in exams and how best to prepare, so you can approach your exams with confidence.  Q&As will help you succeed by: identifying typical law exam questions demonstrating...