Covers topics such as the age of consent, euthanasia and assisted suicide, gambling, guns, internet pornography, marijuana and other drug laws, religious convictions, and terrorism and extremism.

"Sage reference."

Age of Consent /Frances P. Bernat -- Antisocial Personality Disorders / Focquaert Farah & Adrian Raine -- Child Abuse / Wendelin M. Hume -- Civil Disobedience / Wm. C. Plouffe Jr. -- Corporate Crime / Robert F. Meier -- Date Rape / Erica L. Fields -- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide / J. C. Oleson -- Gambling / David G. Schwartz -- Guns / Matt R. Nobles -- Hate Crimes / Jennifer N. Grimes -- Intellectual Property Rights / Elizabeth E. Martinez -- Internet Crime / Billy Henson -- Prescription Drug Abuse / Melissa Tackett-Gibson -- Prostitution / Sharon S. Oselin -- Religious Convictions / Michael D. Royster & Kamesha S. Spates -- State Crime / Dawn L. Rothe -- Terrorism and Extremism / Stan C. Weber -- Undocumented Immigrants / Karen K. Clark -- Vagrancy and the Homeless / Stephen Pimpare -- War Crimes / Karen K. Clark.