The facade of respectability often crumbles to dust with remarkable swiftness once its protective armor has been pierced. The relatively minor investigation into the conduct of one police officer results in the discovery of massive corruption within the force. A routine check by the government of a corporation’s finances turns up damning evidence of widespread […]

The subject of victim psychology has become an area of great interest in recent years, due mostly, perhaps to the widely publicized „conversion” of Patricia Hearst to the radical SLA. Why a victim will turn and become a party to his or her own abduction is a question open to hot debate. The women in […]

Immoral people capitalizing on the innocence of others to attain their goals — a story as old as man. The Bible, history books, law books — all contain examples. And when the innocent victim is young, the story is so much sadder… Judy, the young girl in this book, is the victim of immoral people. […]

Outwardly, suburbia maintains the straitlaced middle-class look that belies the social ferment behind closed doors. There is the secret use of drugs, fed by the river of alcohol flooding from door to door under the euphemism of social drinking. Then, of course, inevitably there is the advent of wife-swapping. All in the spirit of good, […]

Life is filled with periods of transition, and it all starts at birth, when a baby is yanked from the warmth and safety of the womb. No less traumatic for most children is the transition from the protective environment of the home, to the sometimes frightening environment of school. And then comes the time when […]

Oftentimes we are not prepared to deal with even the most basic human experiences — be they tragic or joyful. Life is filled with extraordinary situations which effect us in the most unexplainable ways — always seeming to take us completely unawares and unprepared. Indeed, life itself seems to be a never-ending string of capricious […]

It often comes as a shocking blow to learn that a person one has held in high esteem is not what he appears to be. The model husband next door who is exposed as a wife-beater. The high government official wider investigation for corruption. The respected banker caught with his hand in the till. For […]

Immoral men capitalizing on the innocence of others to attain their goals — a story as old as man. The Bible, history books, law books — all contain examples. And when the innocent victim is young, the story is so much the sadder. The girl in this book — Liz Hall — is the victim […]

Suburban wives have an image; they are all supposed to be sweet, concerned mothers who drive their children to school, watch soap opera, go to PTA meetings and cook for their husbands. But is this image real? The answer, like most serious answers, is a complex one. Many wives in fact do lead domestic, tranquil […]

The process of growing up and passing through adolescence has been characterized by great inner turmoil, uncertainty, and tremendous pressures from family, close friends, peer groups and the neighborhood itself. Certainly, in our complex society, the problems youths face now seem more marked than ever before. Debby Devlin is a teen-ager embarking on her own […]