Books in the A World View of Social Issues series

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;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.