Bücher der Reihe A World View of Social Issues

The post-World War II period has been called the age of migration, since an unprecedented number of people worldwide have been on the move. Each chapter explicates the human cost of migration, giving readers a better understanding of social issues underlying migration at the beginning of the 21st century.

Students are encouraged to think critically to determine which cultures have been the most successful in dealing with domestic abuse and which prevailing techniques have been shared around the world to try to eliminate this very serious problem. The countries chosen represent vastly different geographic regions and cultures.

A cross-cultural exploration of child abuse in 16 representative countries from around the world. Each chapter addresses one country and explores the ways in which it approaches the problem, including: the history of child abuse, how it is defined, and child protection and legal actions.

Answers to these and other questions for fifteen different countries are explored in detail to give a global perspective and to challenge students to think about how the problem should be addressed. The fifteen countries represented have been carefully chosen to represent the different regions of the world.

Students will find answers to these and similar questions in this unique resource of 15 case studies exploring the problems of crime and crime control in different countries, ranging from Germany to Ghana, to around the world.

Are women fighting over the same issues and for the same rights all around the world? These different views of ways in which women have sought their rights around the world will help students to understand the fight for women's rights in a broad sense as a social issue that affects all of humanity.

Teen gangs are a hot issue in the United States. Gang activity in 14 countries, including the United States, is discussed within the larger framework of social and economic conditions. Each chapter explains the nature of the gang activity in that country;

An unprecedented number of children around the world are working today. This volume is a must-have, up-to-date survey for student research. In the 15 examined countries, poverty, lack of education, gender inequity, the demands of the global marketplace, and easy sex tourism are key factors contributing to the child labor crisis. Each chapter depicts the child labor scene in a particular country, along with detailed conditions, the history of the problem, the present state of child labor, political policies, and social aspects, and the ultimate outlook.

Students and teachers can make cross-cultural comparisons to discover how the problem is viewed in different countries, how the problem is changing, which factors seem to contribute to the rate of teen violence in almost all of the countries and which are unique to specific countries.

With case studies of carefully selected countries, representative of every region of the world, this text allows students and teachers to make cross-cultural comparisons to discover how the problem of HIV and AIDS is viewed in different countries, and how the problem is changing.