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...staff members have quietly done constructive work in the city of Washington and in "casework"-helping his constituents solve their own problems with the government, mostly in draft and welfare cases. Along with Sen. Alan Cranston's (D-Calif.) office, they managed to reduce the 15-year sentences of the 27 men condemned in the Presidio Mutiny case...
...Christmas. One reason that so few singles have been tapped is that in screening unmarried applicants, agencies are especially cautious, weeding out anybody they suspect of wanting the child just as a cure for loneliness. In addition to the usual demands of reasonable income, steady job and emotional stability, caseworkers look for singles with "extended families" -people who live with, or at least close to, parents, brothers and sisters and other relatives. "We also like to see applicants demonstrate stubbornness, independence and personal confidence in the face of possible dissent over what they are doing," says Raymond Mondloh, casework director...
Unfortunately, adds Barzun. the people who could do most to help-the teachers and professors-are often the worst offenders. "Suppose the teacher of a course on family life has just been reading Social Casework and his mind is irradiated with this: 'Familial societality is already a settled question biologically, structured in our inherited bodies and physiology, but the answer to those other questions are not yet safely and irrevocably anatomized.' Unless this is immediately thrown up like the nux vomica it is, it will contaminate everybody it touches, from pupil to public-in fact the whole blooming...
...Institute of Criminal Law at the Harvard Law School, the first of its kind in this country, has as its program the scientific correction of criminals. In the wide curriculum are included economics, government, social and psychopathology; social ethics, casework, and research; mental hygiene, criminology, penology, and the usual legal subjects. The first part of the two-year course is spent in research, the summer in some penal institution if possible, and the second part in instruction. When these men have graduated, the Institute hopes to place them in probation or correctional offices, so that they may be able...
Charities. Studies were made of the casework of charities...