The third volume in a series of publications on alternatives to jail incarceration, this booklet deals specifically with alternatives to prosecution. Its focus is the diversion of defendants and prospective defendants from the criminal justice system. Chapter One deals with the policy issues of diversion; Chapter Two with planning diversion…

Emphasizes the problems of Detroit, pointing out that, despite decentralization, the city remains dependent on the automobile industry, and that it is the automobile that has done so much to make Detroit an ugly place, the archetype of the factory city; and asserts that Detroit's problems "do not matter, for they do not touch people of wealth…

This paper argued that professional schools must adjust enrollments to meet public needs and must reorganize their curriculums in order to inculcate a broader sense of social responsibility on the part of the neophyte professionals and thereby assist in altering existing service models and delivery systems. (Editor/RK)

Three experienced social workers discuss the question "Do we or don't we impose middle-class norms on lower-class clients?" The discussion covered the general areas of (1) imposing values, (2) scapegoating, (3) functional norms, and (4) fatalism and poverty. (Author/BW)

Discusses the Franck report and the attempt by scientists to participate in national policy making during World War II. (BR)

The major focus of this article is the presentation of a new and humanistic approach to drug education. The author discusses the Interactive Learning Process (ILP) Model, an alternative values-oriented teaching strategy. It is believed that this program is responsive to the unique academic and emotional needs of today's youth. (Author/BW)

Presented as a speech at the Annual Meeting, National Council of Teachers of English, Milwaukee, November 1968.

This publication contains syllabi from 12 college-level, social-problems courses. The syllabi are being made available in an effort to share various ideas about the content, conceptual organization, and procedures used by sociology professors. The syllabi selected for inclusion represent different approaches to teaching a social problems course…

SINCE MAN IS BOTH A COMMUNITY ANIMAL AND AT LEAST POTENTIALLY A RATIONAL ANIMAL, EDUCATORS SHOULD USE A HUMAN RELATIONS APPROACH WHICH TREATS THE PROBLEMS OF COMMUNITY LIFE AND OF RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY TOGETHER. THEY MUST ATTEMPT TO REALIZE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION ACROSS BARRIERS OF NATIONALITY, CLASS, AND SPECIALIZATION AND TO CONNECT…

First presented at a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conference on renewable resources, this material includes information and discussion on critical issues, policies, and future alternatives for natural resources in the United States. (CO)

Six papers are presented. The topics are: (1) the limits of cost-benefit analysis as a guide to priority-setting in rehabilitation; (2) public policy towards disability; (3) benefit and costs of the federal-state vocational rehabilitation program; (4) social issues in rehabilitation; (5) public expectations; (6) consumer perspectives; and (7)…