"In 1963 The Center for the Study of Law and Society accepted a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation for the purpose of examining issues and perspectives bearing on the administration of civil justice. It was hoped that some ground might be laid for research that would be of interest to social scientists and of value for legal reform."

JEROME E. CARLIN, San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation.

SHELDON L. MESSINGER, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley

Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice, published in 1938, is part of a series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It focuses on the evolution of professional education and problems incident to it in regards to the field of law.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Delinquent Child and the Home is a study of juvenile courts in Cook County, Illinois, where the combination of a separate court and a separate place of detention for children, the abolition of fines, and a system of returning the child to his home and providing probation officers to help him there was at the time unprecedented.

SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

EDITH ABOTT was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

"A report of the agencies and institutions in California devoted to the care of dependent, delinquent, children. One of a series prepared to present and illustrate the types of institutions and services provided to children across the United States."

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of hte Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of the Correction and Prevention series prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress.

CHARLES RICHMOND HENDERSON was professor of sociology in the University of Chicago and commissioner for the United States on the International Prison Commission.

A paper read before the American Prison Association at Baltimore in 1912.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners. It argues that these prisoners are the most likely to reform because they include those who are imprisoned for the first time, and it presents a particular way of treatment towards them in the prison system.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association. 

HASTINGS H. HART was president of the American Prison Association.

Two papers on issues of women in prison and awaiting trial, presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.

MARTHA P. FALCONER, American Social Hygiene Association, New York

MAUDE E. MINER, secretary, New York Probation and Protective Association, New York City

Presented at the Fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.

J. F. WRIGHT was Executive Secretary of the Pathfinders of America, Detroit chapter.