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Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over

Product Description: Have the nations of the world begun to converge with respect to drug policy? Which countries have remained apart from the international dialogue? Which have taken steps to forge new, more liberal policies stressing education, treatment, and alternative community-based intervention? Focusing specifically on cannabis, cocaine, and heroin, Illicit Drug Policies, Trafficking, and Use the World Over presents a brief history and analysis of the current laws and policies regarding illicit drugs_widely considered to be a growing international health threat_in twenty five different countries...read more

By Heather Ahn-Redding, Caterina Gouvis Roman and Rita James Simon

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9780739109984 | Lexington Books, June 15, 2005, cover price $86.50 | About this edition: Have the nations of the world begun to converge with respect to drug policy?

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9780739120880 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, March 30, 2007), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Have the nations of the world begun to converge with respect to drug policy?

A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment: Statutes, Policies, Frequencies and Public Attitudes the World over

Product Description: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty. Incorporating and synthesizing public opinion data and empirical studies, Simon and Blaskovich's work compares, across societies, the offense types punishable by death, the level of public support for the death penalty, the forms the penalty takes, and the categories of persons exempt from punishment...read more

By Dagny A. Blaskovich and Rita James Simon

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9780739103821, titled "A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment: Statutes, Policies, Frequencies, and Public Attitudes the World over" | Lexington Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty.

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9780739120910, titled "A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment: Statutes, Policies, Frequencies, and Public Attitudes the World Over" | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, February 28, 2007), cover price $26.50 | About this edition: A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment provides a concise and detailed history of the death penalty.

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Pornography

Product Description: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States—depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Pornography asks whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world...read more

By Richard Procida and Rita James Simon

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9780739105016 | Lexington Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering.

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9780739120927 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, February 28, 2007), cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States—depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering.

The Insanity Defense, The World over

Product Description: The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the 10th in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective. This volume examines and compares the criteria and procedures surrounding the defense of insanity across twenty-two countries...read more

By Heather Ahn-Redding and Rita James Simon

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9780739115916 | Lexington Books, July 30, 2006, cover price $75.99 | About this edition: The Defense of Insanity, The World Over is the 10th in a series of books that examines and compares social issues or social problems from an explicitly comparative perspective.

The Crimes Women Commit, the Punishments They Receive

Product Description: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive represents the third edition of Women in Crime, a classic in the field by Rita J...read more

By Rita James Simon

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9780739110072, titled "The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive" | 3 edition (Lexington Books, March 15, 2005), cover price $87.50 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.

9780669202366 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.

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9780739110089, titled "The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive" | 3 edition (Lexington Books, March 15, 2005), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.

Sporting Equality: Title IX Thirty Years Later

Product Description: As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. In the decades since, Title IX has had, among other effects, a marked increase on school athletic programs for women and girls at both the high school and college level...read more

By Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780765808486 | Transaction Pub, February 28, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As part of its Education Amendments, the United States Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to ensure that no person should be discriminated against in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Juvenile Justice Systems

Product Description: "On November 20, 1959, the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Charter was meant to safeguard the rights of children all over the world, and protect the most vulnerable members of society from mistreatment at the hands of their parents, the government, the military, educational institutions, and any establishment capable of exerting power over children...read more

By Rita James Simon and Paola Zalkind

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9780739107300 | Lexington Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: "On November 20, 1959, the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education

Product Description: In Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education, Rita J. Simon and Lisa Banks provide a broad perspective on education in twenty countries. This work examines and compares the system of education, literacy rates, enrollment rates, types of public and private schools, years of compulsory education, and the amount of money the government allocates to education in the different societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lisa Banks, Delene Bromirski and Rita James Simon

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9780739106754 | Lexington Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $72.50 | About this edition: In Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education, Rita J.

A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist

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By Julian L. Simon and Rita James Simon

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9780765800732 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $39.95

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9780765805324 | Transaction Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $29.95

Immigration the World over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices

Product Description: With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance. More younger workers are needed to support the social contract established with the baby boom generation, and immigration offers one practical solution...read more

By James P. Lynch and Rita James Simon

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9780742518773 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2003, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance.

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9780742518780 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2003, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance.

Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Marriage and Divorce

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By Howard Altstein and Rita James Simon

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9780739105887 | Lexington Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $67.50

Adoption, Race, and Identity: From Infancy to Young Adulthood

Product Description: Adoption, Race, and Identity is a long-range study of the impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families. Initiated in 1972, it was continued in 1979, 1984, and 1991. Cumulatively, these four phases trace the subjects from early childhood into young adulthood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Howard Altstein and Rita James Simon

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9780765809032 | 2 edition (Transaction Pub, February 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Adoption, Race, and Identity is a long-range study of the impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families.

Women in the Military

Product Description: The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the magnitude of concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might best be addressed, and the future for women in the armed services...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780765806192 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, May 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today.

Immigrant Women

Product Description: The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed, and the future of immigrant women...read more

By Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780765806482 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia.

In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

Product Description: Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen individuals who hail from a wide range of religious, economic, political, and professional backgrounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rhonda M. Roorda and Rita James Simon

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9780231118286 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues.

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9780231118293 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues.

Adoption Across Borders: Serving the Children in Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

Product Description: For over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents; African American, Hispanic, and Korean children; and Jewish Stars of David families, among others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Howard Altstein and Rita James Simon

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9780847698325 | Univ Pr of Amer, February 1, 2000, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: For over thirty years, Rita J.

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9780847698332 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: For over thirty years, Rita J.

A Look Backward and Forward at American Professional Women and Their Families: Co-published With Women's Freedom Network

Product Description: This edited volume contains the thoughtful and often inspiring papers that were presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Women's Freedom Network in 1997. Written by scholars, homemakers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and military personnel, the articles in this collection address the status of women, their careers, and their families--now and in the past...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ronald K. Henry (contributor), Katherine A. Kersten (contributor), Marilyn J. Mangan (contributor), Jennifer Roback Morse (contributor) and Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780761815815 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 2000, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: This edited volume contains the thoughtful and often inspiring papers that were presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Women's Freedom Network in 1997.

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9780761815822 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 2000, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: This edited volume contains the thoughtful and often inspiring papers that were presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Women's Freedom Network in 1997.

Renaissance Women in Science: Co-published With Women's Freedom Network

Product Description: Renaissance Women in Science contains the fascinating stories of seventeen scientists who unlocked secrets of the universe and whose discoveries helped change the future of the world. Pursuing careers ranging from astronomy and atomic research to chemistry and medicine, a number of these women went on to win Nobel prizes for their work...read more

By Rita James Simon and Louise Q. Van Der Does

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9780761814818 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1999, cover price $50.50 | About this edition: Renaissance Women in Science contains the fascinating stories of seventeen scientists who unlocked secrets of the universe and whose discoveries helped change the future of the world.

Renaissance Women in Science

By Rita James Simon and Louise Q. Van Der Does

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9780761814801 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1999, cover price $68.99 | About this edition: Renaissance Women in Science contains the fascinating stories of seventeen scientists who unlocked secrets of the universe and whose discoveries helped change the future of the world.

The Jury and the Defense of Insanity

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By Rita James Simon

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9780316791496 | Aspen Pub, June 1, 1967, cover price $16.00

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9780765804471, titled "The Jury & the Defense of Insanity" | Transaction Pub, March 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

Euthanasia and the Right to Die: A Comparative View

Product Description: Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective. Here, euthanasia and the right to die are examined in the context of the social, legal, and religious settings of a wide range of countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jennifer M. Scherer and Rita James Simon

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9780847691661 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 1999, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective.

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9780847691678 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 1999, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective.

Abortion: Statutes, Policies, and Public Attitudes the World over

Product Description: Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today. Most societies have enacted laws and statutes regarding abortion, and most societies have strong feelings regarding birth control and abortion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rita James Simon

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9780275960605 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1998, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today.

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9780275960612 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today.

The Use of Social Science Data in Supreme Court Decisions

Product Description: The cultures of law and social science differ markedly as to the kinds of truth they pursue. Law is deductive, presenting its findings as certainties; social science is largely inductive, presenting its conclusions as subject to revision and contingency...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rosemary J. Erickson and Rita James Simon

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9780252023552 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The cultures of law and social science differ markedly as to the kinds of truth they pursue.

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9780252066610 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The cultures of law and social science differ markedly as to the kinds of truth they pursue.

In the Golden Land: A Century of Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration in America

Product Description: From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rita James Simon

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9780275957315 | Praeger Pub Text, April 1, 1997, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States.

From Data to Public Policy: Affirmative Action, Sexual Harrassment, Domestic Violence and Social Welfare

Product Description: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes. These sharply focused essays examine affirmative action, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and welfare, and show how the relevant data has been subject to misuse by policy makers with radical agendas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rita James Simon (editor) and Women's Freedom Network National Conference 1995 (corporate author)

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9780761805243 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1996, cover price $80.50 | About this edition: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes.

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