Legislation

About: Legislation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 62664 publications have been published within this topic receiving 585188 citations. The topic is also known as: law & act.

Prostitutes' Rights in the United States: The Failure of a Movement

Abstract: The prostitutes' rights campaign emerged in the early 1970s with the formation of COYOTE in San Francisco and affiliated movement organizations. This study examines the movement's major claims and goals, resource problems, and impact on public opinion, legislation, and law enforcement. The failure to attain key movement goals is explained in terms of chronic deficiencies of material and human resources that might compensate for the campaign's lack of moral capital and enhance its prospects for success.

Collaboration and partnership: an effective response to complexity and fragmentation or solution built on sand?

Abstract: Posits that collaboration in the UK is either recommended as good practice or enshrined within legislation as a necessity. Chronicles that there has been a sustained growth in the number of formal and informal collaborative relationships between state agencies and market, voluntary and community sectors, as well as within and between state agencies themselves. Uses illustrative case study materials drawn from the authors’ research and consultancy experiences, particularly in the areas of inner city community based mental health, urban regeneration, policing, and child and adolescent mental health. Concludes that research has extensively been drawn on to illustrate the dilemmas that regularly arise when attempting to implement this policy objective.

Law and administration

Abstract: This definitive textbook explores the field of law which allows government and its agencies to practically apply its laws. The subject, affected by policy and political factors, can challenge even the more advanced student. In response, this title looks at both the law and the factors informing it, laying down the foundations of the subject. This contextualised approach also allows the student to develop the broadest possible perspective. Case law and legislation are set out and discussed, and the authors have built in a range of case studies to give a practical emphasis to the study. It is, however, the distinctive theoretical framework for administrative law that the authors develop that distinguishes this title from others and allows for real understanding of the subject. This updated edition will cement the title's seminal status.

Medical Marijuana and the Law

Abstract: The U.S. legal landscape surrounding “medical marijuana” is complex and rapidly changing. Diane Hoffmann and Ellen Weber describe evolving legislation.

Responding to Domestic Violence: The Integration of Criminal Justice and Human Services

Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Role and Context of Agency Responses to Domestic Violence 2. Scope of the Problem: Defining and Measuring Domestic Violence 3. Matters of History, Faith and Society 4. Theoretical Explanations for Domestic Violence 5. Selective Screening: Barriers to Intervention 6. The Impetus for Change 7. The Evolution of Arrest Preferences: Criminalizing the Social Response 8. Variations in Arrest Practices 9. The Role of State and Federal Legislation 10. Case Prosecution: The Journey from Road Block to Change Agents 11. Civil Courts and the Role of Restraining Orders 12. Models for Judicial Intervention 13. Community Based and Court Sponsored Diversion 14. Domestic Violence and Health 15. Children and Domestic Violence