Is it fair to restrict certain students' rights in order to make schools safer?

From questions over whether it is appropriate to eat meat or to wear fur or leather, this title examines all sides of this very controversial issue.

Explores key issues related to U.S. immigration, such as illegal immigration and whether or not English should be the nation's official language.

In the wake of 9/11, the question of how much the government should tell the people has become a controversial one.

Today more and more questions are raised concerning the conclusiveness of DNA evidence and whether or not it should be used to convict defendants in criminal trials.

Explores the criticisms that the current welfare system is anti-work and anti-family and discusses the proposed plans to reform it.

Explores the debate over what rights gay individuals should have, including marriage, protection from institutionalized discrimination, and military policy. Thought provoking questions on personal situations and public policy are set within text to encourage reader engagement.

Examines the government's increasing attempts to control the airwaves to maintain a standard of decency.

Each book in this continuing series offers all the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a students needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversial topic. Issues are presented from multiple points of view; sidebars cite law and opinions to aid in critical analysis; paratextual questions encourage reader engagement; and all sources are fully documented and grouped by the side of the argument.

This book examines both sides of the current tort reform debate: should courts reduce the scope of defendants' liability to avoid economic decline, or would that change simply enrich large corporations at the expense of average Americans?