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Key Points


Public engagement in science is on the rise

Authentic community science is still rare, in published forms

Rebranding public engagement as community science may obscure true community‐level efforts

The debate among sociol'ts & pol'al sci'ts about community power structure was concerned primarily with questions of methodology & the appropriate imagery for describing the distribution of power in US communities. The question of what cliff it made for a local community & its citizens, if any, whether power was narrowly concentrated or widely dispersed, was seldom raised. 2 alternative hyp's relating the concentration of community power to community mobilization are discussed. The first argues for a positive relationship between concentration of power & community mobilization, while the 2nd argues the obverse of this hyp. A diffusion-of-power scale is constructed based on a content analysis of 31 Amer communities that were the subject of decision-making studies, & this scale is related to community participation in 4 federal self-help programs - public housing, Ur renewal, Model Cities, & the war on poverty. The results show that the cities in which power is most diffused have greater participation in these programs. An outline of some key concepts that may be most appropriate for explaining such findings is suggested. Modified HA.

Mike Nellis considers the future moral outlook of the Probation Service and suggests that the notions of 'community safety' and 'community justice' should be central values around which to build a just future Service.