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The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiveness and aftermath of the law. DeStefano also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration used trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq. This important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude and explains the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk..
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Scholarship Assessed continues the exploration begun by Scholarship Reconsidered. It examines the changing nature of scholarship in today's colleges and universities and proposes new standards with a special emphasis on methods for assessment and documentation.

Begun under the oversight of Ernest L. Boyer, and based on the findings of the Carnegie Foundation's National Survey on the Reexamination of Faculty Roles and Rewards, Scholarship Assessed provides a base of information for and gives focus to the debate of institutional standards of rigor and quality..
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Recently, Dr. Rawley Silver began investigating a possible use of her Draw a Story Test (DAST) as a screening test for aggression and depression in children The study compares drawings done by children who have already exhibited violent behavior with those who have not, allowing for a controlled experiment from which to define an expected range of responses to the DAST. The results, based on work with a sample of over 200 children ages 8 to 19, are summarized by discussing the test procedures, collected data, and implications of the findings. Chapters in the book explore the changes in emotional state related to aggression and depression, as expressed in a child's responses to the standard art assessment tests employed by Dr. Silver and her colleagues. The book then explores the exciting potential of the test being used as an early identification of children and adolescents at risk for depression or inappropriate aggression. This volume came about as a result of a pilot study, but its intended scope is considerably broader, aiming to investigate the connections between a child's expression through drawing and his or her violent behavior. The potential use of the DAST in the early indicator of abnormally aggressive and/or depressive behaviors in children and adolescents will have wide-ranging implications, hopefully providing a useful tool in the identification and treatment of disturbed children..
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