Purpose: Elder mistreatment is now recognized internationally as a pervasive and growing
problem, urgently requiring the attention of health care systems, social welfare agencies …

Age is the only social category identifying subgroups that everyone may eventually join.
Despite this and despite the well-known growth of the older population, age-based prejudice …

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR presents a theoretical and empirical overview of the
nature and meaning of deviance, examining in detail a number of forms of behavior …

Class Conduct: Students are expected to conduct themselves in a courteous manner, both in
their interactions with other students and with the professor. Furthermore, this class focuses …

The purpose of this chapter is to review and discuss the contributions cross-cultural studies
have made or might make to our understanding of family violence. To cover as much territory …

Family violence research has focused on spouse and child abuse and largely ignored the
third major type of family violence: parent abuse. This study uses data from a national …

Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives examines the entire spectrum of
family violence, focusing on social processes and social relationships. The Ninth Edition of …

This book is about people in crisis and those who help them. As social beings, most of us
need help to weather the storm of events such as sickness, divorce, or the death of a loved …

How gender and sexuality can be life threatening Though violence against women has
received increasing attention from scholars and the general public alike, much of the …

The study sought to identify, for the first time in Canada at a national level, the prevalence
and circumstances of abuse of the elderly in Canada. Four major categories of abuse were …