In this 1966 book, Jerome E. Carlin, who was both a lawyer and a sociologist, marshals persuasive evidence that many lawyers do not consistently adhere to the standards of ordinary honesty, still less to the special professional rules in the canons of legal ethics. It calls for new and tough questions about the way the practice of law is organized.

JEROME E. CARLIN was professor at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley.

In Drugs and Society, Bernard Barber organizes and criticizes what has been learned about drug behavior by biologists, medical researchers, pharmacologists, sociologists, practicing physicians, economists, and government officials, The author brings out the implications of what is now known, the perils of continued ignorance in many areas, and the need for a great deal of specific new research.

Barber examines the ethical considerations relating to experimentation with drugs on human subjects. He indicates that our social policy for the treatment of drug addicts is based on prejudice and ignorance and that it probably aggravates the troubles it seeks to eliminate.

BERNARD BARBER was professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University

A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

Published in 1963, this book offers a critique on the processes by which professional sociologists were being educated in the graduate schools of the United States at the time. It aims to promote higher and more uniform standards of basic scientific training for sociologists. It is not a balanced account of the development of sociology but an assessment of the performance of graduate schools and any discrepancies in training.

ELBRIDGE SIBLEY, Social Science Research Council

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

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.

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.