Ideological and institutional barriers in society impinge on women offenders both while incarcerated and when attempting to obtain a job or training on release. A community studies approach investigated the effectiveness of service programs available to female misdemeanants both in the jail and in the community. Interviews, observations,…

Little is known about the roles of the family, kin and non-kin support networks in determining the use of social services by the elderly. An examination of the role of the formal and informal support systems to explain social service utilization by black and white older adults used path analytic procedures to test an explanatory model of…

The purpose of this document is to present statistics which show clearly that poverty is a women's issue. The position of poor women relative to the total population living below the Federal poverty line is demonstrated. Income levels are analyzed to reveal the percentages of women whose annual income is below $5,000. The relationship of income…

This paper analyzes three theories of racial discrimination by arguing that a dual housing market, a strong white taste for segregation, and pure racial price discrimination are all operative in the Boston urbanized area. Research dealing with discrimination and price differentials in housing for blacks is reviewed. It is pointed out that there…

An analysis of presently existing research indicates a strong relationship between the culture of the black community (which is traceable to an African heritage), childrearing practices of black families, and the learning and expressive styles of black children. In this paper key studies are reviewed that provide information on cognitive styles…

This paper presents evidence to substantiate the argument that statistics on illness and mortality rates should be broken down by separate sex-race groups of white male, white female, nonwhite male, and nonwhite female in order to accurately describe the inequalities of rates for death and illness experienced by these groups. Data were collected…

This study looked at three areas of women's aspirations for careers in educational administration: the relative distribution of aspiration levels; the relationships to achievement orientation; and the relationship of self-role congruence to educational administration. Significant inequalities were found in the distribution of subjects based on…

The paper discusses test bias; presents the rationale of the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA), a test instrument which assumes equal cultural and racial intellectual potential but asserts that there is not one normal curve of measured intellectual performance; and suggests that the test would correct racial and cultural test…

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION OF NEGRO AND WHITE WORKERS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS WAS COMPARED BY USING DATA COLLECTED IN THE MARCH 1966 "CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY." POVERTY TRACTS IN THE LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS WERE IDENTIFIED, AND EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS LIVING THERE WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF CITY DWELLERS OUTSIDE THE POVERTY TRACTS.…

This study examined similarities and differences between blacks' and whites' responses to rarely endorsed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) items, as well as those items responded to most differently by the ethnic groups. Our subjects, 882 normal black middle-class adults from Alabama, Michigan and North Carolina, were compared to…

Two versions of a simulation game, Parent-Child, were taught to ten white and ten black inner-city males. The twenty subjects played a total of 198 rounds of the game, and the following conclusions were made with respect to the use of the Parent-Child game as a research site. (1) Inner-city fifth and sixth grade males can be taught to play…

Perception of emotion is one example of nonverbal communication and is the subject of this study of the accuracy of perception of various emotions. Seven emotions were chosen for this investigation. Each emotion was acted out by actors, whose performance was filmed. From the films, stills were selected which best represented the emotion being…

A nonstandard analysis of covariance (homogeneity of regression not assumed) was performed on 23 black-white item comparisons that had manifested bias according to an item X group interaction definition of bias, and on 9 black-white comparisons that had not manifested bias, to determine whether item bias is reduced for white and black examinees…

Characteristics and determinants of earnings distributions for black and white males are revealed in samples from the 1960 and 1970 censuses. Using this data, this paper describes and contrasts the properties of black and white male earnings distributions. It also uses earnings functions estimated from the census to identify and rank variables in…

Differences in the number and types of problems as well as in self-reported self-concept between 232 black and white pre- and postmenarcheal adolescents were examined in this study. The study also examined differences in these variables across four developmental levels of menarcheal status: initial, intermediate, middle, and established. These…