Miller's unpublished work

Implications of Urban Lower Class Culture for Social Work, Miller 1956: lowerclassculture.pdf

Community Culture and the Social Worker The professional social worker may be described as a person engaged in a planned and systematic attempt to bring about changes in habitual patterns of behavior of those with whom he works. This is not, of course, the only way the social worker's role can be conceptualized, but this conceptualization can provide a useful point of departure-especially in regard to those areas of behavior which appear at the same time to be largely supported by community norms and to present problems.

A Research Project on a Community-Focused Method of Delinquency Control, Miller 1956: deliquencycontrol.pdf

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Corner-Group-Worker Method of Controlling Delinquency in Juvenile Gangs Nature of the Project: The Special Youth Program (SYP) is a demonstration program set up to test the effectiveness of several techniques for controlling and reducing juvenile delinquency in a densely populated, rapidly changing, lower-income area of Boston.

A Research Project on a Community-Focused Method of Delinquency Control, Miller 1956: research-progress_table_001.pdf

A Corner Girl Discusses, Miller 1957: a_corner_girl_discusses.pdf

"The following dialogue was taken from a tape recording of a discussion between a Special Youth Program worker and a seventeen year old girl--here called 'Marge.' Marge was a former member of a group of street corner girls... that had been seen by the community as 'bad,' and who had been engaged in habitual truancy and other kinds of troublesome behavior."

A Roxbury Mother, Miller 1957: a_roxbury_mother.pdf

"In assessing a Youth Service Program, it is important to know how the program appears in the eyes of many different groups... Perhaps one of the most important of such groups is the adults of the local community... The following observation was made by a mother who is a lifelong resident of a neighborhood worked in by Program workers."

Juvenile Crime in the Special Youth, Miller 1957: juvenile_crime_in_the_special_youth.pdf

"The following material presents first, four general statements as to trends in delinquency in Roxbury and nearby areas, and second, some of the statistical data from which these generalizations were derived."

Work With Groups in a Metropolitan "Inner-City" Problem Area, Miller 1957: innercity.pdf

In several large cities special experimental projects have been undertaken in problem areas. An integrated approach based on the skills of casework, group work and community organization has been used, supplemented by research. The two following papers on the three year SPECIAL YOUTH PROJECT IN THE ROXBURY SECTION OF BOSTON, provided the case material for a meeting on this subject at the National Conference on Social Welfare, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1957.

Preliminary Generalized Theoretical Orientations to the Study of Gang Delinquency Developed from the Boston Delinquency Program, Miller 1959: prelim_generalized_theoretical_orientations_1959.pdf

"The Boston Delinquency Project, a service-research program in gang delinquency control, maintained service operations for three years. Twenty-one adolescent corner-group units which 'hung out' in a central city district were contacted by seven trained social workers."

Trends in "Delinquent Acts" Committed by Members of Eight Adolescent Corner Groups Worked with by Social Workers, Miller 1958: trends2.pdf

"Method: Social workers' field contact reports were coded for all 'delinquent acts' committed by members of eight street-corner groups during the worker's term of contact. Listings and definitions of delinquent acts were based on, but not limited to, criminal offenses listed in the Massachusetts Penal Code..."

Progress Report: Research on the Effectiveness of the Corner-Group Worker Method for Controlling Delinquency in Juvenile Gangs, Miller 1958: progressreport2.pdf

"The Special Youth Program of Roxbury, Massachusetts, was a three year project instituted to demonstrate the effectiveness of several community-based techniques for controlling delinquency. The major technique employed was the street-corner worker method... for attempting to induce changes in the customary behavior patterns of lower class adolescent corner groups (also called 'delinquent gangs')."

Some Characteristics of Present-Day Delinquency of Relevance to Educators, Miller 1959: waltermillerpresentpdf.pdf

"It appears that from the rather terse designation of my topic, which is simply 'Theory,' that I have virtually unlimited latitude as to how I should use the time allotted to me... I will attempt to do this by selecting and discussing briefly what I feel to be five of the major premises or assumptions underlying the theory presented here."

Subculture and Customary Behavior, Miller 1965: subculture_-_cust_behavior_1965.pdf

This paper is a preliminary version of an analysis of the retaliation of subculture to customary behavioral practice. It will constitute the next-to-last chapter of City Gangs, the major report on NIH project, control of gang delinquency.

Topic Outline of City Gangs, Miller: topic_outline_of_city_gangs.pdf

This literature piece outlines the unpublished City Gangs book by Walter Miller.

Adolescent Subculture and Drug Use, Miller 1976: adolescent_subculture_and_drug_use.pdf

It is difficult to make a distinction between the "problematic" and "non-problematic" use of psychoactive drugs which will be broadly accepted, but it is evident that such a distinction must be made when policy considerations are at issue.

Gangs in America- Why the US has failed to solve its Youth Gang Problem, Miller 1989: gangs_in_america-miller.pdf

In the 1950's youth gangs were widely recognized as a serious problem in major U.S. cities. The image of the fighting gang was disseminated widely, and New York gang conflict was the subject of a play that became a classic of the American theater.