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Policing today is more professional than it has ever been in U.S. history. Yet we are reminded by well-publicized beatings that brutality continues. T...
Opposing Viewpoints
A collection of articles, speeches, and book excerpts from the 1990s, with bandw cartoons and quotations, by experts, policymakers, and concerned citi...
This book presents differing opinions on the causes of crime, how crime can be prevented, how society treats juvenile offenders, and more....
This volume explores the issues surrounding English language learners. It presents diversity of opinion on each topic, including both conservative and...
This essential volume considers the importance of privacy in the digital and post-9/11 era. Essays are presented that represent divergent viewpoints. ...
The questionable activities of police have come under increased scrutiny in recent years. In this engaging anthology, police officers and commentators...
Authors debate the need for penalty enhancement laws for hate crimes, the extent and seriousness of hate crimes, and whether hate speech should be pro...
Over 19 million Americans use illegal drugs, costing the nation billions of dollars every year and leading to untold suffering. In this anthology auth...
This essential volume explores issues surrounding homosexuality. It presents diversity of opinion on the topic, including both conservative and libera...
Authors debate whether or not the beliefs of various extremist groups threaten the United States....
Discusses the moral and ethical issues surrounding the different types of genetic engineering....
This must-have collection of essays explores issues related to cyberbullying. Through articles from a variety of sources, the book addresses whether o...
Contains twenty essays in which various authors examine issues related to the atom bomb, discussing its development, the decision to drop the bomb on ...
The United States has been fighting a war on poverty for nearly forty years and yet poverty seems as entrenched as ever in American society. The chapt...
Authors debate the physical effects of pollution on human health and the environment and possible ways to protect both in the following chapters: Is P...
The number of gangs in the United States has increased dramatically in the past few decades. No longer confined to poor, inner-city areas, gangs are a...
This book includes a discussion of the jury system, the reform of civil justice, the explosion of litigation, the effect of the media on the justice s...
Highly respected people, who have nothing to gain by coming forward with their stories, have been claiming for decades that they have been abducted by...
Contains articles that provide opposing viewpoints on the issue of gun control, discussing whether gun control is a threat to society, the meaning of ...
From NASA's exploration into whether Mars's atmosphere might once have supported life to tabloid tales of UFO sightings and alien abductions, the ques...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines the term anabolic steroid as any synthetic variation of the male hormone testosterone. Steroids can be us...
Provides a collection of articles by a variety of authors espousing different viewpoints on issues related the the criminal justice system....
Presents opposing viewpoints on the legality, morality, responsibility for, and justification of abortion. Includes critical thinking skills activitie...
Overview of the birth and development of hate groups in the United States. Includes discussion of constitutional issues such as free speech and hate c...
Present articles discussing a variety of gun control issues....
Authors express their opinions on how mental illness should be defined, how society should deal with the mentally ill, and the effectiveness of method...
An anthology of opposing viewpoints discusses the problems and causes of homelessness....
Contains essays from survivors of the attack including personal accounts of the rescue and recovery efforts, reactions by both politicians and ordinar...
An indepth and comprehensive work on teenage sexuality. Includes signed articles, extensive bibliography and contact information (including websites) ...
Presents nineteen pro and con essays on teen sexual activity, including such aspects as sexually transmitted diseases, substitution of oral sex for in...
Presents a collection of essays offering varying viewpoints on gun control....
Authors present a wide range of opinions on what policies should be adopted for HIV testing, what methods should be used to control the spread of AIDS...
Juxtaposes contrasting answers to the questions of whether animals have rights, animal experimentation is justified, hunting is ethical, animals shoul...
Essayist Anita Sharma Bhattarai describes what it is like to be sold into sex slavery. Marc Perkel reports that sex for money is not always prostituti...
Death Camps
Approximately six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust in World War II. The authors in this anthology offer personal accounts of the death ca...
While steroids are medically useful in small, prescribed doses, they are too often abused in sports alongside other performance-enhancing drugs. Young...
Examines various sides of the cloning debate....
The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City brought terror to the heartland of America. This book examines the devastating attack on A...
Examines the severity and prevalence of domestic violence and suggests ways that it can be prevented....
In this anthology, scientists, activists, and dissenters explore the controversy surrounding the AIDS crisis. Chapters include: What Is the State of t...