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Social Problems - Editor: James A. Holstein
Published for the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
One of the most respected and widely read professional journals in the social sciences, Social Problems presents accessible, relevant, and theoretically innovative articles which embody critical perspectives on contemporary social issues. Topics covered in recent issues include homelessness, youth at risk, bias in the justice system, affirmative action in education, agents of social change and feminism and language.

JOURNAL FOR CRIME RESEARCH IN SOUTH AFRICA (CRISA) - Prof. M.R. Makhanya, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of South Africa - Introduction - We live at a time where social problems confront us everywhere. Most sociologists consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a significant number of people who agree that action or remedy is needed to alter the situation (Lauer 1992; Horton et al 1994; Mooney et al 2000). - crisa.org.za/volume1/makhan.htm

The Electronic Journal of Gambling Issues: eGambling (EJGI) offers an Internet-based forum for developments in gambling-related research, policy and treatment as well as personal accounts about gambling and gambling behaviour. Through publishing peer-reviewed articles about gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems, it is our aim is to help make sense of how gambling affects us all. - camh.net/egambling/main.html

Sociologists consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a significant number of people who agree that action or remedy is needed to alter the situation.

Social problems confront us everywhere. Sociologists consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is not compatible with the values of a large number of people who agree that action or remedy is needed to change the situation.