Summer 2012

Features:

• An End to Mass Incarceration - For 30 years, we've been putting more and more people behind bars. What are the fiscal, moral and practical advantages of rehabilitation?
• (Sidebar) Teaching Criminal Justice
• (Sidebar) Crime and the City
• Immigration and Identity - Talk about immigration is usually about federal policies and legal frameworks. But some researchers are examining how being an immigrant affects young people's lives.
• (Sidebar) Alone, Undocumented, Afraid
• Social Work | Social Justice - SSA students in University of Chicago's Human Rights Program traveled around the globe to explore broader societal implications of social work. 

Departments:

• Viewpoint: From The Dean - SSA's Connection To The World
• Conversation - Child Welfare And Its Limits
• Ideas
• Pushed Around - A changing world lets bullying in between the cracks.
• A New International Therapy - Why is Motivational Interviewing stretching around the globe?
• Examining Poverty - The University's Poverty, Promise and Possibility initiative looks at the issues with a wide lens.
• Inside Social Service Review
• Healthier Together - Young people with two parents at home tend to have better physical health.
• Shaken Support - The child support system wasn't built for today's more complex families.
• No Safe Haven - A study in Israel shows a quarter of children in residential foster homes have been maltreated while in care.
• Outstanding Alumni - SSA's 2011 Edith Abbott Award winners
• Behind The Numbers: Addressing Disparity - We need to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on African Americans. 

Web-only Content:

• Extended Conversation - Child Welfare And Its Limits
• Evelyn Diaz, AM '98 - Commissioner of the City of Chicago's Department of Family and Support Services
• Student Profiles
• Nikel Bailey, AM '12
• Jeff Simms, AM '12
• Margaret Marion, AB '12, AM '12
• Rocio Reyes, AB '12, AM '12
• Kara Fox, AB '13, AM '13
• Ann Stock, AM '12
• Kara Guminsky, AM '13