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Designed to provide information about the most controversial issues in modern business. Readers are given not just basic facts about the controversies, but also references, suggestions for further reading, and opinions from experts on each topic.

100 entries by 66 experts explore the major controversies or issues involving the administration of criminal justice. Readers are given basic facts about the controversies, and also references, suggestions for further reading, and opinions from experts.

Media studies’ smartest critics, experts, and researchers discuss the more pressing concerns and “battlegrounds” in contemporary media. Each entry explains a key controversy or battleground topic and offers a list of further readings.

How women’s bodies become battlegrounds—symbolically and materially, through political and economic processes, policies, laws, educational and religious institutions, and cultural ideologies—is at the heart of these entries.

Presents background, arguments, and resources on approximately 150 debate topics in diverse areas. Includes the resolution, context, pro and con, sample motions, and web links and print resources.

Topics include gay rights, stem cells, assisted suicide, abortion, and the spread of legal gambling, as well as shifts in American attitudes and law in the moral values debate.