eReference Books Guide — Issues & Controversies

Comprehensive and balanced coverage of: Concepts and theories Correction Law Crimes Methods and statistics National surveys Organizations ...

Provides users with a “gender lens” on society by focusing on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research.

This encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large.

Explores major topics related to global warming and climate change—ranging geographically from the North Pole to the South Pole, and thematically from social effects to scientific causes.

Focuses on the current situation in the United States, ensures an international perspective by including a comparative sampling of homelessness from around the world.

Explores poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects.

Offering a guide to the global struggle for human rights, the problems and shortcomings of the international human rights regime, and the resources essential to human rights studies, this work looks at religious tolerance, torture, environmental rights, discrimination, and genocide, as issues central to the contemporary debate on human rights.