Table Of Content

Contents Number 1 March 1 Editor’s Introduction: The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Issue of Social Service Review * Michael R. Sosin Knowledge for Direct Social Work Practice: An Analysis of Trends ¢ William J. Reid Political Theories of the Welfare State * John Myles and Jill Quadagno Social Services and the State: The Public Appropriation of Private Charity * Laurence E. Lynn,Jr . United States Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement: The Past Twenty-Five Years * Howard Glennerster Rethinking “Child Placement”: A Reflective Essay * James K. Whittaker and Anthony N. Maluccio Mental Health and Mental Illness: Out of the Closet? * Carol T. Mowbray and Mark C. Holter Review Essays Race and Nation ° Andrew Billingsley 189 Explaining the Welfare State * Alfred J. Kahn 196 Brief Notices 200 Contributors Number 2 June 203 Looking for a Better Way to Care for Children: Cooperation between the State and Civil Society in China * Xiaoyuan Shang Alternative Routes to Professional Status: Social Work and the New Ca- reers Program under the Office of Economic Opportunity * Marilyn Peterson Armour Substance Use among Welfare Recipients: Trends and Policy Responses * Harold A. Pollack, Sheldon Danziger, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Rukmalie Jayakody The Impact of Child Support Enforcement on Nonmarital and Marital Births: Does It Differ by Racial and Age Groups? * Chien-Chung Huang Psychological Distress and Intimate Physical and Sexual Abuse among Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs * Miriam Schiff, Nabila El-Bassel, Malitta Engstrom, and Louisa Gilbert The Impact of Microenterprise Assistance Programs: A Comparative Study of Program Participants, Nonparticipants, and Other Low-Wage Workers * Cynthia K. Sanders Book Reviews Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, Civic Innovation in America: Com- munity Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal Megan Meyer RobertJ . Chaskin, Prudence Brown, Sudhir Venkatesh, and Avis Vidal, Building Community Capacity HerbertJ . Rubin Marilyn Irvin Holt, Indian Orphanages Carol Hand Mary Rafferty and Eoin O’Sullivan, Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools Mark E. Courtney Jennifer Hamer, What It Means to Be Daddy: Fatherhood for Black Men Liv- ing Away from Their Children Waldo E. Johnson Lawrence J. Vale, From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Pub- lic Neighbors Jacqueline Leavitt Brief Notices Contributors Number 3 September 365 The Psychology of Poverty: Professional Social Work and Aid to Depen- dent Children in Postwar America, 1946-1963 * Laura Curran 387 Operating within the Rules: Welfare Recipients’ Experiences with Sanc- tions and Case Closings * Andrew j. Cherlin, Karen Bogen, James M. Quane, and Linda Burton An Organizational Analysis of Psychosocial and Medical Services in Outpatient Drug Abuse Treatment Programs ¢ Elizabeth M. Durkin Societal Value and the Funding of Kinship Care * Ann E. Schwartz Parental Incarceration: Recent Trends and Implications for Child Welfare * Elizabeth I. Johnson and Jane Waldfogel A Deeper, More Social Ecological Social Work Practice * Michael Ungar Book Reviews Sharon Berlin, Clinical Social Work Practice: A Cognitive-Integrative Perspective William Borden Michael B. Katz, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State Michael Willrich Jona M. Rosenfeld and Bruno Tardieu, Artisans of Democracy: How Ordi- nary People, Families in Extreme Poverty, and Social Institutions Become Allies to Overcome Social Exclusion Dennis K. Orthner Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews, The Road Not Taken: A History of Radical Social Work in the United States David Wagner William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, and Donald T. Campbell, Experi- mental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference Charles S. Reichardt Malcolm W. Klein, Hans-Jiirgen Kerner, Cheryl L. Maxson, and Elmar G. M. Weitekamp, The Eurogang Paradox: Street Gangs and Youth Groups in the United States and Europe Irving Spergel David Garland, The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contempo- rary Society Norval Morris Brief Notices Contributors Number 4 December The History of Grandmothers in the African-American Community °¢ Jillian Jimenez Foster Care Experiences of Long-Term Welfare Recipients in California ¢ Rob Geen, Katherine Kortenkamp, and Matthew Stagner Preferred Characteristics of Children in Need of Adoption: Is There a Demand for Available Foster Children? * Devon Brooks, Sigrid James, and Richard P. Barth Before and After TANF: The Economic Well-Being of Women Leaving Welfare * Maria Cancian, Robert H. Haveman, Daniel R. Meyer, and Bar- bara Wolfe Sanctions and Material Hardship under TANF *¢ Anil Kalil, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Hui-chen Wang Identifying and Predicting Offending Trajectories among Poor Children ¢ Ick-Joong Chung, J. David Hawkins, Lewayne D. Gilchrist, Karl G. Hill, and Daniel S. Nagin Review Essay The Practice-Research Nexus in Social Work: Problems and Prospects ° James K. Whittaker Book Reviews Erik Van Hove, Networking Neighborhoods RobertJ .C haskin Peter Evans, Livable Cities? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability William Sites Jerry Floersch, Meds, Money, and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness Deborah L. Padgett Toba Schwaber Kerson, Boundary Spanning: An Ecological Reinterpretation of Social Work Practice in Health and Mental Health Systems Beth Angell Brief Notices Contributors Acknowledgments to Readers Index to Volume 76