Grapes, Bryan J

A collection of essays dealing with the scope, nature, causes, and prevention of child abuse.

This book presents differing opinions on whether affirmative action has outlived its usefulness and whether statistics indicate a need for affirmative action to continue.

Presents eighteen primary and secondary documents on significant events in world history between 1980 and 2000, including the advent of the personal computer, the Chernobyl disaster, the debut of MTV, the start of the AIDS epidemic, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and others.

Discusses the positive and negative aspects of interracial dating and marriages.

Discusses the causes, nature, and prevention of violence in schools.

Contains seventeen articles that provide information about teens and violence, discussing school violence, teens and guns, and abusive relationships; and examining ways teenagers can avoid violence.

More than twenty essays and articles present information and varying perspectives on child abuse, discussing its causes, societal responses to the issue, the potential ability of the criminal justice system to prevent child sexual abuse, and the question of whether child abuse is a widespread, serious problem.

Contains a selection of primary sources that examine all sides of the debate over prisons, discussing whether they are effective, how inmates should be treated, the issue of privatization, and inmate labor.

Contains ten essays in which various authors present opposing viewpoints on the issue of affirmative action.