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The author is a doctoral student in the Community Psychology Program at New York University and is Visiting Assistant Professor and Project Director of a National Institute of Mental Health study of adaptive coping with urban crime and fear at the Department of Criminal Justice, Temple University. He thanks the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. He also acknowledges two late and distinguished community psychologists from New York University. Isidor Chein was the only author to be cited twice in theBrown v. Board of Education opinion's celebrated Footnote 11 and, along with Stuart Cook and Kenneth Clark, was a coauthor of theSocial Science Statement that was submitted to the Warren Court. Stanley Lehmann encouraged the present work and understood that community psychology means more than just doing psychology in the community. Much of this article is also relevant to the equally acute need for community-oriented researchers to share their knowledge with policy makers in the executive and legislative branches at all levels of government. The focus on litigation was chosen because it is the legal forum whose method is most dissimilar to that of social science and perhaps least understood by social scientists.
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Perkins, D.D. The use of social science in public interest litigation: A role for community psychologists. Am J Commun Psychol 16, 465–485 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00922765
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