This book defines and explains the social case history. Published in 1920 as a guide for social scientists, it argues that case history is defined by its intended purpose; namely, the immediate purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, or the incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical thinking.

ADA ELIOT SHEFFIELD was director of the Boston Bureau on Illegitimacy.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association in 1921. The subjects of the papers are wide in scope, many relating not only to the administration of prisons and the treatment of prisoners, but to probation, parole, mental health, juvenile delinquency, and other related subjects.

C. B. ADAMS was president of the American Prison Association.

This report of research conducted at Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services was designed to develop a comparable fund of reported experiences of evaluative studies of mental health carried out in social welfare settings. It evaluates the program at Altro from the rehabilitation of post-hospitalized mental patients, based on research and in depth analysis on the resulting data.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper presents the structure of the Westchester County Penitentiary, whose prisoners are employed on the farm the penitentiary rests on. It argues that, instead of being a liability to the county, the prison is an asset, and that, instead of being a place of punishment, it is a training school that returns its wards to society as better men because of their experiences on the farm. Key to this system is that the prisoners are self-governing through a method of classification and rewards that is outlined in detail in this paper.

V. EVERIT MACY was commissioner of public welfare, Westchester County, N.Y.

Prepared for the American Sociological Society in 1959, Sociology and the Military Establishment explores the relationship between the military and the possible contributions of sociologists, particularly after World War II. It argues for more effective utilization of sociological theory and research in the analysis of problems to the military and makes evident that research on military problems would provide extremely valuable opportunities for testing sociological theory and method.

MORRIS JANOWITZ was professor of sociology at the University of Michigan.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this pamphlet attempts to develop proper, universal plans for a model jail. Arguing that each prison would have specific building requirements and characteristics, the author presents several well-established canons of architecture and building which should be followed in any jail, emphasizing humane conditions and required needs. Printed with A Departmental Plan for a Detention Home for Delinquent Women by Maxwell Hyde.

R. W. ZIMMERMAN, prison architect, Chicago

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

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

A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, this book is an account of correctional institutions. Most of the book is devoted to reformatories and prisons in the northern United States. It includes papers on the evolution and reforms of the prison system, the methods in which offenders are trained for responsible citizenship, and prison conditions for women.

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

A volume of the Correction and Prevention papers prepared for the Eighth International Prison Congress in 1910, published by the Charities Publication Committee of the Russell Sage Foundation. From the preface: “This volume is designed especially to furnish reliable information to the delegates in attendance upon the International Prison Congress with reference to the progress of work for neglected children in the United States. The subject is studied in its concrete form, and the effort is made to give a comprehensive view of what is being undertaken in the United States for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and, thereby, of adult delinquency. … The study in Part Three, relating to Cottage and Congregate Institutions, has been made by the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation, for the special benefit of boards of trustees who are contemplating the building of new institutions for children or the re-organization of old ones. It is accompanied by plans for a children’s cottage with outside sleeping porches designed by the author and executed by Robert W. Gardner, Architect, of New York City.

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

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.