This 1912 paper analyzes the various issues behind a proposal aimed at preventing the increase of criminals, the sterilization of the mentally deficient. It looks into the legal problems surrounding such a proposal, as well as an alternative segregation plan, to document the proposal’s ineffectiveness.

HENRY H. GODDARD was professor at the Department of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Vineland, N.J.

This pamphlet and its accompanying charts are intended to provide a brief description of governmental organizations of the city of New York. Some mention also is made of county, state, and the federal agencies as well as of public authorities which operate within the boundaries of the city.

ROBERT H. CONNERY was professor emeritus of public law and government at Columbia University and deputy city administrator of New York.

A volume of the Pittsburgh Survey, six volumes edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg.

CRYSTAL EASTMAN was secretary at the New York State Employers Liability commission.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the practice commonly known as the "Third Degree," a means of obtaining information from persons under suspicion of crime involving a high degree of pressure applied to the accused to compel them to confess or to give evidence that the persecutor desires. The prosecuting attorneys and chiefs of police in some of the largest cities in the United States answered questionnaires regarding the practice of this interrogation. The report also looks into the possible abuses that exist in this method and potential reforms.

B. OGDEN CHISOLM was International Prison Commissioner, Washington, D.C.

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

A Model Tenement House Law, published in 1910, presents a set of tenement housing laws based on a thorough examination of New York law, at the time the model for tenement housing legislation. It provided a new standard for state and city legislators.

LAWRENCE VEILLER was secretary of the New York State Tenement House Commission, and First Deputy Tenement Commissioner of the Tenement Department of New York City.

Carrying Out the City Plan presents the practical variations in different parts of the United States in acquiring land for public purposes and the distribution of cost for public improvements. Particular focus is placed on the design and execution of such municipal improvements as parks, playgrounds, public squares, parkways, streets, the placing of public buildings and the improvement of their grounds.

FLAVEL SHURTLEFF, Boston Bar

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects

An elementary treatise on cooperative banking, containing questions and answers concerning methods of organization and operation, necessary books and forms, suggested by-laws and the Credit Union Law of New York.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation

LEONARD G. ROBINSON was manager of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.

This introduction to social case work was published in 1922 as part of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Work Series. The different forms of social work and their interrelations in the school, workshop, hospital, and court are analyzed.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

In 1916, the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping organized round table sessions to assist trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. This document outlines the agendas of the meetings, which also accompanied the publication of eight short monographs of study findings.

C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This handbook, published in 1922, serves as an introduction to zoning, covering the spread of the movement, the reasons for zoning, the experiences of various zoned cities, and the legal pitfalls, with a discussion of the theory of community land planning legislation.

EDWARD M. BASSETT was chairman of the Zoning Committee of New York.