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Mental health : HHS leadership needed to coordinate federal efforts related to serious mental illness / United States Government Accountability Office -- Testimony of Richard G. Frank, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. hearing on "federal efforts on mental health : why greater HHS leadership is needed" -- Prevalence of mental illness in United States : data sources and estimates / Erin Bagalman and Angela Napili.

Gang members commit a disproportionate amount of crime, especially violent crime, in the United States. An estimated 3,340 homicides were committed by gangs in 1997 (Maxson, Curry, & Howell, 2002). Considering that the national homicide total was 18,210 on 1997 (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1998), gangs were involved in 18% of homicides nationwide. In addition, the 1997 National Youth Gang Survey also estimated that 42% of youth gangs were involved in the distribution of illegal drugs (Maxson et al., 2002). As research has indicated, gangs and the reason people join gangs are a complex social phenomenon. Although we know more about gangs than in the past, seldom is this knowledge utilized in program development and implementation. The following paper integrates theories and research on gang history, gang formation, characteristics of the contemporary gang, with current methods of gang intervention. A comprehensive analysis of the Gangster Disciples is utilized to understand the complexity of gang formation and how suppression efforts of law enforcement and other government agencies without other types of intervention can compound gang problems. Gang intervention requires collaboration of multiple disciplines and the family to be successful. Understanding the complexity of gang formation and reasons that individuals join the gang is vital to successful intervention and treatment.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Age of Youthful Optimism -- 2. Democracy and the Defects of Public Opinion -- 3. The State as Mediator -- 4. Security through a Compensated Economy -- 5. The Free Market, Civility, and Natural Law -- 6. From Scientific Realism to Romantic Renaissance -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

"This book illustrates the deep roots of natural law doctrines in America's political culture. Originally published in 1931, the volume shows that American interpretations of natural law go to the philosophical heart of the American regime. The Declaration of Independence is the preeminent example of natural law in American political thought? it is the self-evident truth of American society.Benjamin Wright proposes that the decline of natural law as a guiding factor in American political behaviour is inevitable as America's democracy matures and broadens. What Wright also chronicled, inadvertently, was how the progressive critique of natural law has opened a rift between and among some of the ruling elites and large numbers of Americans who continue to accept it. Progressive elites who reject natural law do not share the same political culture as many of their fellow citizens.Wright's work is important because, as Leo Strauss and others have observed, the decline of natural law is a development that has not had a happy ending in other societies in the twentieth century. There is no reason to believe it will be different in the United States."--Provided by publisher.

Since 2001 the Australian Government has applied increasing pressure to the Department of Defence to find efficiency savings in its ongoing business operation. During the early 2000s the savings required by the Australian Government in the operational costs of the Department of Defence were fixed amounts and realised primarily through the reduction of administrative overheads and the early retirement of specific military platforms1 such as two of the guided missile frigates (Defence 2008). In 2005 the Australian Government introduced to specific parts of the Department of Defence budget the concept of an efficiency dividend, which required an ongoing percentage of budgetary funds to be returned to the Australian Government in the form of savings. Between 2005 and 2011, as the size and scope of the efficiency dividend increased, the Department of Defence has been required to develop initiatives internally and externally to meet its savings commitments to the Government. One of the initiatives under investigation is ensuring that the productivity benefits generated by the Australian defence industry are distributed equitably to the Department of Defence in its role as sole consumer of defence industry goods and services. Using an index number approach, this study empirically measures the changes in the productivity of the Australian defence industry during the period 2001 to 2009. In addition, the study compares changes in defence industry productivity with changes in defence industry profits, defence industry employee wages, the quality of service being provided by the defence industry, and the level of competition in the defence industry marketplace, to determine how any productivity benefits are being distributed. This study finds that during the period of interest, the defence industry experienced an increase in both multifactor and labour productivity. The study finds evidence to suggest that changes in defence industry productivity have an effect on both the profitability and performance measures calculated ...