The Journal of Social Issues

Vol. 37 No. 3 1981

Institutions and Alternatives

Issue Editors: Marybeth Shinn and Barbara J. Felton.

Institutions and alternatives 1
Marybeth Shinn and Barbara J. Felton

Deinstitutionalization and the rights of the deviant 6
Andrew Scull

On the relative effectiveness of institutional alternative placement for the psychiatrically disabled 21
Donald J. Dellario and William A. Anthony

The effectiveness paradox: institutional vs. community placement of offenders 34
Rosemary Sarri

Reevaluation the place of evaluation in planning for alternatives to institutional care for the elderly 51
Barry Gurland, Ruth Bennett, and David Wilder

Effective community treatment of the chronically mentally ill: What is necessary? 71
Mary Ann Test

Community-based services for juvenile delinquents: Concept and implications for practice 87
Robert B. Coates

Community supports for the aged 102
M. Powell Lawton,/p>

Psychiatric deinstitutionalization: A sociocultural analysis 116
Sue E. Estroff

Family participation for juvenile offenders in deinstitutionalization programs 133
Anne Rankin Mahoney

The family in the institutionalization of the elderly 145
Sheldon S. Tobin and Regina Kulys

Ideology and practice of deinstitutionalization 158
Barbara J. Felton and Marybeth Shinn

Biographical sketches 173