The Children and the Law program was developed to install productive attitudes toward law in fifth graders. Components of the program are a series of six television films entitled Children and the Law; a booklet for students entitled A Look at Law; a Teacher's Guide; Community Guidelines; panel discussions among representatives of the legal…

In an attempt to achieve equality in employment practices this annual report is presented as an ethnic survey of employees of the executive branch of New York State government. This report compares the data collected in late 1972 with that gathered in three of five previous years: 1967, 1970, and 1971, and tabulates and examines employee…

The publication reports the findings of the first year of an ongoing study of career development systems in law enforcement. It focuses on the need to develop four capabilities: identification of organizational needs, identification of individual attributes and interests, reconciliation of the needs of the organization with the needs of available…

The major purpose of this monograph is to make available a substantial array of data regarding racial attitudes accumulated in a series of sample surveys taken by the Survey Research Center between 1964 and 1970. The first six chapters report the findings of a study undertaken in early 1968 in 15 major cities of the United States at the request of…

This tabbed instructors' guide contains the following seven preservice training units for Michigan law enforcement officers: (1) administration, (2) legal, (3) investigative, (4) general police, (5) traffic, (6) special subjects, and (7) external relations. The history of the Michigan Law Enforcement Officers Training Council, which developed this…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

The statistics on vandalism compiled in this report were obtained from a survey of all 717 schools in suburban Cook County and give a broad overview of the extent, frequency, and financial costs incurred as a result of vandalism in the schools. The survey includes information on methods of protection and surveillance such as security personnel,…

Issues uncovered in a 3-year action-research project that placed social workers and graduate students in community police departments were selection of staff and students, attitudes about the law, confidentiality, motivating the reluctant client, and sensitivity to police-social worker perceptions of each other. (JT)

Author explores some of the issues raised by the National Association of Youth Clubs project "Youth and Race in the Inner City". (Editor/RK)

Most school resource officers (SROs) are employees of municipal or county police agencies who are permanently assigned to one or more schools. Known also as "School Safety Officers," "Community Outreach Officers," and "School Liaison Officers," SROs are not synonymous with school security or school police departments because of their multifaceted…

Two hypotheses (selective attention and slot filling) of how schemata enhance the learning and recall of the initial comprehension of prose material were tested. Consistent with the attention-focusing hypothesis, readers spent more time on sentences containing information important to their assigned perspective. (Author/PN)

Describes the development of a behaviorally based performance appraisal system for assessing the performance of highway patrol personnel. The items in the present scale were developed to describe proficiency levels of specific job tasks. This characteristic is expected to enhance the objectivity of the evaluation system. (Author)

Outlines the steps taken in Atlanta's public schools, as a result of the continuing, unsolved murders of over 20 Black youths, to protect children from potential danger, to provide a sense of stability and business-as-usual, and to help children put their fears into perspective.(WD)

Presents the majority and the dissenting opinions of the Supreme Court justices in their 1978 decision regarding the 1971 police search of the Stanford University student newspaper office. (GT)