MAY CONTAIN MARKUP

Henry Bienen

FROM THE FOREWORD: “In the summer of 1967 the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs established a study group on violent politics and modernization. The purpose was to review and hopefully to deepen the present state of knowledge about the relationship between violence and rapid social change. As organized by Professor Manfred Halpern of Princeton University, a Fellow of the Institute, and Wayne Fredericks, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and now of the Ford Foundation, a group of distinguished social scientists met each month to consider papers on various aspects of modernization and violence….”

The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London. 1968. 129p.

By .J Robert Weber and Carson Custer.

“A curious feature of the literature on youth involvement is that most of it is an exhortation to involve youth and very little deals with description of actual practice or an evaluation of the effectiveness of youth involvement in relation to goal achievement. It is almost as if youth ought to participate because it would be "good" for them. Sometimes it is implied that youth involvement would be "good" for adults. At other times youth involvement sounds like a strategy to shift decision-making power in such a manner that would enhance the writer's viewpoint.

Information Review on Crime and Delinquency. NCCD Vol.1. No.9. 1969. 39p.