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This single-source reference will help students and general readers alike understand the most critical issues facing American society today.

Table of Contents

Preface VOLUME 1: BUSINESS AND ECONOMY Advertising and the Invasion of Privacy Affirmative Action Bank Bailouts Conglomeration and Media Monopolies Consumer Credit and Household Debt Corporate Governance Corporate Tax Shelters Debt, Deficits, and the Economy Dumping of Imports Election Campaign Finance Executive Pay Financial Regulation Foreign Direct Investment Free Trade Glass Ceiling Globalization Government Subsidies Health Care Immigrant Workers Income Tax, Personal Intellectual Property Rights Interest Groups and Lobbying Labor, Organized Marketing of Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing to Children Marketing to Women and Girls Minimum Wage Oil Economics and Business Outsourcing and Offshoring Pensions Poverty and Race Prescription Drug Costs Sex and Advertising Social Security Supply Chain Security and Terrorism Sustainability Trade Deficits (and Surpluses) Unemployment War and the Economy Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index VOLUME 2: CRIMINAL JUSTICE African American Criminal Injustice Alternative Treatments for Criminal Offenders Border Fence Class Justice Corporate Crime Cruel and Unusual Punishment Cybercrime Death Penalty DNA Usage in Criminal Justice Domestic Violence Interventions Drug Trafficking and Narco-Terrorism DWI and Drug Testing Expert Witness Testimony Eyewitness Identification Gang Injunction Laws Gun Control Human Smuggling and Trafficking Identity Theft Immigration and Employment Law Enforcement Insanity Defense Juvenile Justice Juveniles Treated as Adults Miranda Warnings Miscarriages of Justice Patriot Act Police Brutality Police Corruption Prison Construction Prison Sexual Assault Prisons—Supermax Public Defender System Racial, National Origin, and Religion Profiling Right-Wing Extremism School Violence Search Warrants Serial Murder and Mass Murder Sex-Offender Registries Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Social Justice Three-Strikes Laws War on Drugs Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index VOLUME 3: FAMILY AND SOCIETY Abortion Addiction and Family Adoption—International and Transracial African American Fathers and Absenteeism Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Bilingual Education Birth Control Charter Schools Child Abuse Child Care Clergy Sex-Abuse Scandal Corporal Punishment Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Evolution Deadbeat Parents Desegregation Divorce Domestic Partnerships Domestic Violence—Behaviors and Causes Dropouts Drugs Early Childhood Education Eating Disorders Elder Abuse Elder Care Employed Mothers Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Foster Care Gambling Gangs Gay Parent Adoption Gays in the Military Gender Socialization Government Role in Schooling Homelessness Immigration Reform Inclusive Schooling Juvenile Delinquency Mental Health New Religious Movements No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Nutrition in Schools Obscenity and Indecency Pornography Poverty and Public Assistance Prayer in Public Schools Religious Symbols on Government Property School Choice Self-Injury and Body Image Shock Jocks, or Rogue Talk Radio Standardized Testing Steroid Use by Athletes Suicide and Suicide Prevention Surrogacy Teen Pregnancy Video Games Violence and Media Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index VOLUME 4: ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY Acid Rain Aging Infrastructure Air Pollution Airport and Aviation Security Animals Used for Testing and Research Automobile Energy Efficiencies Biodiesel Biotechnology Brownfields Development Cancer Carbon Offsets Carbon Taxes Childhood Asthma and the Environment Children and Cancer Climate Change Clinical Trials and Scientific Ethics Cloning Coal Cumulative Emissions: Impacts and Risks Deep Ecology and Radical Environmentalism Emissions Trading Endangered Species Environmental Audits and Industrial Privilege Environmental Impact Statements Environmental Justice Epidemics and Pandemics Eugenics Federal Environmental Land Use Food Safety Fossil Fuels Genetic Engineering Genetically Modified Organisms Global Warming HIV/AIDS Hormone Disruptors: Endocrine Disruptors Human Genome Project Incineration and Resource Recovery Industrial Agricultural Practices and the Environment Industrial Feeding Operations for Animals Influenza Internet Land Pollution Lead Exposure Logging Medical Ethics Medical Marijuana Mining of Natural Resources Missile Defense National Parks and Concessions Nature versus Nurture Nuclear Energy Obesity Off-Label Drug Use Oil Drilling and the Environment: The Case of ANWR Persistent Organic Pollutants Pesticides Reproductive Technology Robots and Social Robotics Solar Energy Sprawl Stem Cell Research Stock Grazing and the Environment Surveillance—Technological Transportation and the Environment Vaccines Voting Technologies Waste Management Water Pollution Watershed Protection and Soil Conservation Wild Animal Reintroduction Wind Energy Bibliography About the Editor and Contributors Index

About the Author

Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD, is an independent writer and editor.