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145 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. vii (1929)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0145 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD THis volume has been prepared with the definite purpose of laying before the legal profession, the social work group and other interested persons, in untechnical language, an interstitial field in human welfare lying between those covered by the law on the one hand and by social work on the other. The method of approach treats both these groups as concerned with the solution of specific human problems and the consequent amelioration of the condition of the common man. Our task is to portray not the way in which law solves legal problems within the field of law, not the way social agencies solve social problems within the field of social work, but the heretofore in- adequately charted field where the individual suffers from conditions not solely in either field, and both law and social work are required to work to- gether to effect a complete solution. It is a discussion of relationships. There are many human difficulties in this field. A claim for wages earned but not collected may be a legal prob- lem in one sense. The consequences to the wage earner and his family are often social and economic. A woman deserted by her husband, with her children around her, may present a legal problem in so far as the law is called upon to arrest the husband and force him to support his family, but the immediate responsibility of caring for the family, giving them medical and financial assistance and advice, is largely social. Similarly, groups of persons, for instance, immigrants, pre- sent, in the process of Americanization, certain difficulties to be dealt with at the same time by law-others that must be treated by educational, psy- chiatric, economic and social agencies. The lawyer is called on for legal advice or action, the social agency for food, clothing, shelter, advice and guidance of other sorts. Each case represents one person suffering from various problems. If the treatment he receives from the legal counselor, while good in itself, is unrelated to the aid from social agen- cies, the individual may suffer more than he gains. If the social solution indicates that some result is desirable for the victim, regarding him and his problems as an entity, common sense would indicate correlation between his legal and his social advisers so that the final result may be beneficial. In the past, for various reasons, there has been a lack of correlation and many individuals have suffered. Much of the misunderstanding has arisen be- cause there was no common ground where the two groups could meet and each learn about the aims of the other. So we have limited this book to a brief survey of the way in which law touches social welfare and what is being done for the individual. More concretely, we are interested in the relationship between law and social work, in the legal-social field, in the problems that arise and the ma- chinery already devised to give us a better understanding of this phase of human activity. For some time it has been apparent that while here and there lawyers, social workers, sociologists, medical men recognized such a field, there was comparatively little exploration in it with an eye to devising machinery, discovering what sorts of problems arise, what ought to be done with them, and how social workers and lawyers may be brought together so vii

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