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It is often assumed that the ideal study-design for evaluation of the effectiveness of a social program would be a controlled experiment. A case study is presented of an evaluation-research project which utilized such a design. The project encountered both technical difficulties and intraorganizational friction, which, it is argued, are virtually inherent in the utilization of an experimental design for the appraisal of the effects of a broad-aim, largely unstandardized, and inadequately replicated action-program. Among the technical difficulties are problems in the identification of criteria, problems having to do with the exclusion of alien variables, problems associated with the changing form of the intervention, and problems associated with the limitations of the experimental form as a source of new knowledge. Among the sources of intraorganizational friction are the constraints on stimulus-modification imposed by the experimental commitment, the tendency of operationalizations of aims to become aims in their own right, and the comparative ignorance regarding what the action-program is doing on the part of a research group which is concentrating on the collection of baseline data. A plea is made for evaluation which would be more qualitative and process-oriented.

It is often assumed that the ideal study-design for evaluation of the effectiveness of a soc program would be a controlled exp. A case study is presented of an evaluation-res project which utilized such a design. The project encountered both technical difficulties & intra-org'al friction which, it is argued, are virtually inherent in the utilization of an exp'al design for the appraisal of the effects of a broad-aim, largely unstandardized, & inadequately replicated action-program. Among the technical difficulties are problems in the identification of criteria, problems having to do with the exclusion of alien variables, problems associated with the changing form of the intervention, & problems associated with the limitations of the exp'al form as a source of new knowledge. Among the sources of interorg'al friction are the constraints on stimulusmodification imposed by the exp'al commitment, the tendency of operationalizations of aims to become aims in their own right, & the comparative ignorance regarding what the actionprogram is doing on the part of a res group which is concentrating on the collection of baseline data. A plea is made for evaluation' which would be more qualitative & process-oriented. Modified HA.

Critical of crackdown on crime; sentencing reforms, drug policy, prison conditions, and other issues; US; 11 articles. Topics include homeless persons, lack of treatment for the mentally ill in California's prisons, and the supermaximum-security prison at Florence, Colorado.

Bereits in seinen ersten Artikeln über die NSA-Affäre brachte Glenn Greenwald das ganze Ausmass der Massenüberwachung im digitalen Zeitalter ans Licht. Seine Berichterstattung, für die er mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet wurde, löste international ein politisches Erdbeben aus. In seinem Buch deckt Greenwald anhand einer Fülle von brisanten Geheimdokumenten aus dem Archiv des Whistleblowers Edward Snowden die illegalen Praktiken der amerikanischen Geheimdienste auf. Alles und jeder wird ausgespäht, die Bevölkerung steht unter Kollektivverdacht. Meinungsfreiheit wird im Namen der Sicherheit unterdrückt, und es gibt keine Privatsphäre mehr - nirgends