1. Social science and the citizen

   Departments Pages: 2 - 3

2. Letters from readers

   • Thomas Hoffer
   • Sally B. Kilgore
   • Michel Rene Barnes

   Departments Pages: 4 - 9

3. Innovating policies

   • Tom J. Farer

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 10 - 12

4. From botany bay to burnt fly bog

   • James A. Inciardi

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 12 - 14

5. Devil’s Island redux

   • Bruce Jackson

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 14 - 19

6. Warehousing criminals

   • Donald R. Cressey

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 19 - 22

7. Making crime cost and lawfulness pay

   • Ernest van den Haag

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 22 - 24

8. Re-creating the Hobbesian jungle

   • Isidore Silver

   Solving Violent Crime? Pages: 24 - 26

9. Working at leisure

   • Lionel S. Lewis

   Culture And Society Pages: 27 - 32

10. Reaganomics, reindustrialization, and regionalism

    • Bernard L. Weinstein
    • John Rees

    Rebuilding America Pages: 33 - 38

11. Assault on federal spending

    • Bruce Bartlett

    Rebuilding America Pages: 39 - 43

12. Industry-growth sweepstakes

    • Bradley R. Schiller

    Rebuilding America Pages: 44 - 47

13. Keys to regional growth

    • Peter Hall

    Rebuilding America Pages: 48 - 52

14. Silicon valley confronts Japan

    • Everett M. Rogers
    • Judith K. Larsen

    Rebuilding America Pages: 53 - 57

15. States as economic laboratories

    • James M. Howell

    Rebuilding America Pages: 58 - 62

16. The future of the sunbelt

    • David Mathews

    Rebuilding America Pages: 63 - 65

17. New federalism and old facilities

    • Pat Choate

    Rebuilding America Pages: 66 - 70

18. Designing tomorrow

    • Alvin Jay Harman

    Rebuilding America Pages: 71 - 74

19. Budgeting states’ rights

    • Sar A. Levitan

    Social Science And Public Policy Pages: 75 - 78

20. Pacific overtures

    • Clark L. Beck
    • Ardath W. Burks

    Photo Essay Pages: 79 - 83

21. Social science books of the month

    Departments Pages: 84 - 84

22. Books in review

    • Eviatar Zerubavel
    • William Julius Wilson
    • Robert B. Smith

    BookReview Pages: 84 - 95