Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Problems and Issues in Record-Keeping / Stanton Wheeler
The Scope of This Volume
Themes and Variations in Record-Keeping
The Policy Issues
Part II. Educational Institutions
Chapter 2. Record-Keeping in Elementary and Secondary Schools / David A. Goslin and Nancy Bordier
American Education and Educational Records
The Historical Development of Record-Keeping Procedures
Current Practices
Trends and Future Prospects
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Chapter 3. The Dossier in Colleges and Universities / Burton R. Clark
The Scope of Record-Keeping
The Primary Central Records
The Varieties of Location and Style
The Varieties of Confidence
Use of the Final Record After College
The Problem of Anticipation
Chapter 4. Information-Flow within the Professions: Some Selective Comparisons of Law, Medicine, and Nursing / Rodolfo Alvarez and Wilbert E. Moore
The Profession of Medicine
The Professions of Law and Nursing: General Comparisons to Medicine
General Comparisons among the Professions
Summary
Part III. Economic Institutions
Chapter 5. The Dossier in Consumer Credit / James Rule, David Caplovitz, and Pierce Barker
How Credit Reporting Works
How Should Credit Reporting Work?
Future Trends and Issues
Chapter 6. Record-Keeping and Corporate Employees / Ivar Berg and James Salvate
Sources of Information on Managers
Records on Nonmanagerial Personnel
Disclosure of Information on Employees
Implications and Issues in the Use of Corporate Dossiers
Conclusions
Chapter 7. Personal Information in Insurance Files / H. Laurence Ross
Life Insurance Underwriting
Personal Information in Other Types of Insurance
Part IV. Governmental Institutions
Chapter 8. Government Records: The Census Bureau and the Social Security Administration / Joseph Steinberg
Federal Data Collection
The Bureau of the Census
The Social Security Administration
Government Statistics-A Coordinated System
Chapter 9. The Dossier in Military Organization / Roger W. Little
Forms of Military Dossiers
Disposition of Records
Issues and Implications
Chapter 10. Security Investigations / Jesse Orlansky
Federal Personnel Clearance Programs
The Investigative Procedure
Denial of Clearance
Privacy of Information in Dossiers
Appendixes
Part V. Welfare Institutions
Chapter 11. Record-Keeping and the Intake Process in a Public Welfare Agency / Don H. Zimmerman
The Setting and Its Tasks
Reception
The Intake Investigation
Documents as Objective and Factual Accounts
Concluding Remarks
Purposes of Juvenile Court Records
Police and Juvenile Delinquency Records
Making and Using Juvenile Court Records
Consequences of Juvenile Court Records
Dossiers and the "Law Explosion"
Chapter 13. Case Records in the Mental Hospital / Kai T. Erikson and Daniel E. Gilbertson
Record-Processing
The Patient
Issues of Confidentiality
Part VI. The Law
Chapter 14. Legal Control of the Dossier / Abraham S. Goldstein
The Direct Inquiry: Questions to A by B
The Indirect Inquiry: Getting Information from B about A
Getting Information about A from the Government
Striking the Balance
Index