Sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, this ILJ-managed, four-year series of seminars has offered to practitioners, lawmakers, and researchers the reflections and experience of some of the brightest thinkers and academicians working today on social science problems in the United States. This series, offered within walking distance of the U.S. Houses of Congress, has featured such outstanding features as James Q. Wilson, Sissela Bok, Felton Earls, and Franklin Zimring, speaking on many varied topics such as the relationship of crime to changing roles in our society, effective drug policies, the effects of mistrust of government on sentencing, crime and the media, and the implications of massive and growing immigration on the safety and cohesiveness of neighborhoods.