Tying Knots With Communities: Youth Involvement in Scouting and Civic Engagement in Adulthood

Using data from a nationally representative sample of American adult males (N = 2,512), this study examines (a) whether duration of membership in the Boy Scouts of America is associated with adult civic engagement and (b) whether five characteristics of positive youth development (confidence, competence, connection, character, and caring) account for the relationship between duration of Scouting membership and adult civic engagement. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that duration of participation in Scouting is positively associated with four indicators of civic engagement: community involvement, community volunteering, community activism, and environmental activism. Among the five positive characteristics, confidence and competence were found to fully mediate the effects of Scouting on all four types of civic engagement, whereas the other three only to partly mediate the effects

03-03-1976 Justice White, Per Curiam

This is an appeal from the judgement of a three-judge federal court declaring unconstitutional and enjoining the enforcement of certain statutes of the State of New York which provide for prejudgment attachment of a defedant\u27s assets. On April 13, 1973 appellant Curtis Circulation Co. (Curtis) filed a suit against appellees Sugar, Wrestling Revue, Inc. (Wrestling), and Champion Sports Publications, Inc. (Champion), in New York state court. The complaint alleged that Curtis had advanced over $100,000-of which$28,588.08 remained unpaid-to Champion under a contract with Champion pursuant to which Champion had agreed to permit Curtis to market certain identified sports magazines

01-17-1973 Justice White, Per Curiam

The issue presented by the appeal is whether the laws of Texas may constitutionally grant legitimate children a judicially enforceable right to support from their natural fathers and at the same time deny that right to illegitimate children

11-06-1969 Correspondence from White to Stewart

Dear Potter: Please join me

01-07-1977 Correspondence from White to Rehnquist

Dear Bill: Please join me

12-18-1972 Justice White, Dissenting

MR. JUSTICE WHITE, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN, and MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL join, dissenting

05-18-1981 Justice White, Per Curiam

On July 14, 1976, criminal complaints were issued against petitioners charging them with disseminating obscenity in violation of Ohio Rev. Code Ann. 2907.32. The Municipal Court granted petitioners\u27 motions to dismiss the complaints on the ground that petitioners had been subjected to selective and discriminatory prosecution in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Courts of Appeals of Ohio reversed, finding the evidence insufficient to support petitioners\u27 allegations of selective and discriminatory persecution. The case was remanded for trial. The Ohio Supreme Court affirmed. We granted certiorari. -U.S.- (1980). Because the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court was not final judgement within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. 1257, we dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction