This is an innovative study of 300 delinquent boys in a medium security institution and after their release. This longitudinal field experiment shows how peers affect the rehabilitation of different group members, how staff use those influences to lead to prosocial change after release from the institution, and how different behavior, values, and feelings improved. This well-designed research has broad implications for use in graduate courses in sociology, criminology and penology, social and personality psychology, and group dynamics. The book is equally useful to administrators and policymakers dealing with delinquents and individuals with behavior problems.
The field experiment was devised with both practical and theoretical purposes in mind, to develop corrective programs for delinquent youth and to test social science hypotheses in the context of a longitudinal experimental research design. The study presents a typology of delinquent boys that guides differential treatment, focuses on peer group and staff influences, and identifies factors in residential treatment and in the open community that facilitate prosocial reentry. The findings test hypotheses about group and staff impact on anti-social behavior within the institution and after release.

Personality and Peer Influence in Juvenile Corrections (Contributions in Criminology and Penology)

Gold, Martin

Osgood, D. Wayne

Teen & Young Adult

Praeger

Examines three model schools, established as alternatives to expulsion for selected disruptive students.

Expelled to a Friendlier Place: A Study of Effective Alternative Schools

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mann, David W.

Psychology & Counseling

University of Michigan Press

Process, Procedure, and Structure. Includes '"Supplement 1, 103d Congress, first session, winter 1993" (15 p.) inserted".

Book on Congress

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Big Eagle Pub

The mosaic of social psychology includes pieces of all the social sciences. Thus, this discipline has seemed sprawling and disjointed. As outlined in this book, however, social psychology comes into focus, and its pieces form a unified whole. In A New Outline of Social Psychology, senior social scientist Martin Gold presents a new, integrated model of social psychology, focusing on the reciprocal relations between the person and the social environment. The specification of different influence processes among four levels of analysis (person, social organization, interpersonal relations, and culture) in their zones of interpenetration illuminates the dynamics of the social science domain.

A New Outline of Social Psychology

Douvan, Elizabeth Ann Malcolm

Mental Health

Amer Psychological Assn

...a new collections of Lewin's most important early work including fifteen out-of-print articles...represents a major contribution to America's intellectual tradition and reflects the extraordinary range of Lewin's talent.

The Complete Social Scientist: A Kurt Lewin Reader

Lewin, Kurt.

This multi-faceted analysis of institutional investment defines `fiduciary finance' institutions as the third pillar of the financial system, alongside banks and insurers. It documents the role played by investment funds and the money management industry during the recent financial crisis, and provides an unashamedly critical review of the business disciplines which can dominate investment practices. It clarifies the economic significance of the investment industry (circa $60 trillion in assets) and the features which differentiate fiduciary finance from traditional financial institutions such as banks and insurers.  Martin Gold reviews the intellectual foundations of the investment discipline and synthesizes the literature into the principal `scientific paradigms'. He explores the legal frameworks (prudential investment standards) that govern mainstream portfolio management practices which, combined with the commercial imperatives of the investment industry, can create marked differences from textbook depictions of investment management. Recent events have again called into question the worth of the now ubiquitous collective investments such as pension funds and mutual funds, and the integrity of the financial markets. Given the trillions of government funds which have been committed to financial bailouts, and the volatility experienced by investors, the author asserts that a critical analysis of fiduciary finance must question whether better outcomes can be achieved. Tellingly, most fiduciary finance institutions remain outside the perimeter of macro-prudential regulations. This challenging and multidisciplinary work promises to provide a fascinating read for academics focusing on economics and finance, money and banking, as well as for investment and financial services practitioners, policymakers and market regulators.

Fiduciary Finance: Investment Funds and the Crisis in Financial Markets

Business & Money

Economics

Edward Elgar Publishing

Zeitreise in die Gegenwart – Unterwegs nach Europa –

edition bohemica, 2010

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