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_CNS_Clinical_Trials_Suicidality and_Data_Collection
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7488″]Suicide is a serious, yet tragically underrecognized, public health problem that claims approximately 30,000 lives each year in the United States. Cast in its societal and historical context, the rate of suicide for the past century has been two to three times that of homicide. Worse yet, suicide is one of the foremost causes…
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_Priorities for _Research to_Reduce the_Threat of_Firearm-Related_Violence
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7479″] In 2010, more than 105,000 people were injured or killed in the United States as the result of a firearm-related incident. Recent, highly publicized, tragic mass shootings in Newtown, CT; Aurora, CO; Oak Creek, WI; and Tucson, AZ, have sharpened the American public’s interest in protecting our children and communities from the harmful…
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_Support for_Forensic_Science_Research_Improving the_Scientific_Role of the_National_Institute of_Justice
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7473″] Reliable and valid forensic science analytic techniques are critical to a credible, fair, and evidence-based criminal justice system. There is widespread agreement that the scientific foundation of some currently available forensic science methods needs strengthening and that additional, more efficient techniques are urgently needed. These needs can only be met through sustained research…
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_Proactive_Policing_Effects on)_Crime and_Communities
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7468″] Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in policing that began to emerge in the 1960s because of social unrest, rising crime rates, and growing skepticism regarding the effectiveness of standard…
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_Understanding_Violence_Against_Women
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7464″] Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women’s lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has…
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_Violence_Prevention in_Low- and_Middle-Income_Countries_Finding a_Place on the_Global_Agenda
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7460″] The current state of science in violence prevention reveals progress, promise, and a number of remaining challenges. In order to fully examine the issue of global violence prevention, the Institute of Medicine in collaboration with Global Violence Prevention Advocacy, convened a workshop and released the workshop summary entitled, Violence Prevention in Low-and Middle-Income Countries.…
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_Violence in_Families_Assessing_Prevention and_Treatment_Programs
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7456″]Reports of mistreated children, domestic violence, and abuse of elderly persons continue to strain the capacity of police, courts, social services agencies, and medical centers. At the same time, myriad treatment and prevention programs are providing services to victims and offenders. Although limited research knowledge exists regarding the effectiveness of these programs, such information…
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_Violence and_Mental_Health_Opportunities for_Prevention and_Early_Detection
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7452″]On February 26—27, 2014, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop titled Mental Health and Violence: Opportunities for Prevention and Early Intervention. The workshop brought together advocates and experts in public health and mental health, anthropology, biomedical science, criminal justice, global health and development, and…
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_Understanding and_Preventing_Violence
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7448″] By conservative estimates, more than 16,000 violent crimes are committed or attempted every day in the United States. Violence involves many factors and spurs many viewpoints, and this diversity impedes our efforts to make the nation safer. Now a landmark volume from the National Research Council presents the first comprehensive, readable synthesis of…
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_Reducing_Suicide_A_National_Imperative
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7444″]Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the U.S., and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to access professional help. Reducing Suicide provides a blueprint for addressing this tragic and costly problem: how we can build an appropriate infrastructure, conduct needed research, and improve our…
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_Preventing_Violence _Against_Women and_Children
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7440″] Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to everyone, women and children are particularly susceptible to victimization because they often have fewer rights or lack appropriate means of protection. In some societies certain types of violence are…
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_Preventing_Bullying_Through_Science_Policy, and_Practice
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7436″] Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have “asked for” this type of treatment, or deserved it. Sometimes, even the child who is bullied begins to internalize this idea. For many years, there has been a…
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_Deadly_Lessons_Understanding_Lethal_School_Violence
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7432″] The shooting at Columbine High School riveted national attention on violence in the nation’s schools. This dramatic example signaled an implicit and growing fear that these events would continue to occur—and even escalate in scale and severity. How do we make sense of the tragedy of a school shooting or even draw objective…
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_Contracting with_Companies (_Contemporary+Studies in_Corporate Law)
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7347″]Contracting with Companies surveys the main rules of company law governing the making of contracts with companies. It adopts an economic perspective, examining these rules in terms of the risks they apportion between companies and parties contracting with them. It reviews the use that has been made of economics in the analysis of company…
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_Confidentiality in_International_Commercial_Arbitration_A_Comparative_Analysis of the_Position under_English, US, German and French_Law
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7343″]Arbitration is an essential component in business. In an age when transparency is a maxim, important issues which the laws governing arbitration currently fail to address are the extent to which disclosure of information can be constrained by private agreement along with the extent to which the duty to preserve confidentiality can be stretched.…
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_New_Developments in_International_Commercial and_Consumer_Law
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7338″]This volume contains original and practical papers on many areas including banking law, the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial law, competition law, electronic fund transfers, products liability, and international commercial arbitration.
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_Commercial_Law (Briefcase)
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7334″]The Briefcase series is designed specifically with the time-pressed student in mind. It provides concise case summaries within each subject area of an undergraduate law degree, accompanied by relevant legislation. A handy reference tool, the book assists the reader to commit the content of each subject to memory. This book critically interrogates the principle…
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_Commercial_Law( _Principles of_Law)
[ebook_store ebook_id=”7326″]The first edition of this book formed part of the Lecture Notes series, which was intended to help students by giving them a clear outline of the material to be covered in the course, so as to enable them to concentrate on the lectures and other reading within a framework which was easy to…