The biology, the behavioral, the cultural, and the social dimensions of agression are reviewed in relation to the role of teachers in the role of learning about conflict and conflict resolution. (KM)

We must ask whether our American society is indeed committed to the well being of all its children and to the eradication of all violence perpetrated by individual caretakers, or violence perpetrated collectively by society. (Author)

To analyze the role of the counterrioter, the Disaster Research Center at Ohio State University set up field studies in six cities: in three of the cities--Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Youngstown, Ohio--disturbances occurred which lasted for several days and necessitated considerable police mobilization. (Author/JM)

Article focused on the efforts of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Children to examine the position of children in American society, identify the needs of children and parents, define and appraise how these needs are currently being met, and recommend new policies. (Author/RK)

Author focuses on why parents abuse their children and what can be done to them stop. (Editor)

Examines some of the problems associated with the training, retraining, and rehabilitation of people in urban, industrial California. Indicates that on an average day in 1969, over seven million people in California were under institutional care or in some institutional program related to law enforcement, social welfare, hospitals, and schools.…

Discusses the role of teaching and of teachers in determining and asserting our values and in the exploration of alternatives and their consequences. (TO)

Describes the chief aims of the Council for Science and Society in London and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna. Indicates that both groups are planning to function as a multinational interdisciplinary organization. (CC)

Corporations wielding greater power than many states and some nations make decisions having far greater implications for communities than do the local laws governing those communities. It is speculated that the constitutional framers may have provided checks, balances and constraints for them as they did for government if their potential power had…

This service, offered by The Family Coordinator, is a report of articles found in journals which are not likely to be read regularly but offer an article or special issue of particular usefulness in the family field. Topics included in this issue are paternal rights, student marriages, women's studies, sex, Kibbutz Children, intermarriage and…

A narrative of the author's experiences in attempting to bring a white racist speaker before his integrated class on black-white conflict at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. (JM)

The author first describes a new way of doing ethnographic research, contrasting it with the prevalent academic style, and then discusses the studies of black prostitution done by him and his wife. (JM)

Discusses the thesis that the administration of physical punishment to children may pre-dispose them to violence as adults. Child-rearing practices, physical punishment within the schools, modeling of violent behavior by adults, and the self-fulling prophecy, i.e., you are bad,'' are types of practices considered. (LK)

Needed changes in methods of law instruction for police officers and in society's attitudes toward law enforcement are discussed. (JB)

The University Year for Action is a federally funded program that lets students work firsthand with some of the problems of our society; drug abuse, poverty, the elderly, and the mentally ill. (PG)