The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society

The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society
Author: United States. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1967
Genre: Crime
ISBN:

This report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- established by President Lyndon Johnson on July 23, 1965 -- addresses the causes of crime and delinquency and recommends how to prevent crime and delinquency and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice. In developing its findings and recommendations, the Commission held three national conferences, conducted five national surveys, held hundreds of meetings, and interviewed tens of thousands of individuals. Separate chapters of this report discuss crime in America, juvenile delinquency, the police, the courts, corrections, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, drunkenness offenses, gun control, science and technology, and research as an instrument for reform. Significant data were generated by the Commission's National Survey of Criminal Victims, the first of its kind conducted on such a scope. The survey found that not only do Americans experience far more crime than they report to the police, but they talk about crime and the reports of crime engender such fear among citizens that the basic quality of life of many Americans has eroded. The core conclusion of the Commission, however, is that a significant reduction in crime can be achieved if the Commission's recommendations (some 200) are implemented. The recommendations call for a cooperative attack on crime by the Federal Government, the States, the counties, the cities, civic organizations, religious institutions, business groups, and individual citizens. They propose basic changes in the operations of police, schools, prosecutors, employment agencies, defenders, social workers, prisons, housing authorities, and probation and parole officers.

The Challenge of Crime

The Challenge of Crime
Author: Henry Ruth
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2006-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0674266943

The development of crime policy in the United States for many generations has been hampered by a drastic shortage of knowledge and data, an excess of partisanship and instinctual responses, and a one-way tendency to expand the criminal justice system. Even if a three-decade pattern of prison growth came to a full stop in the early 2000s, the current decade will be by far the most punitive in U.S. history, hitting some minority communities particularly hard. The book examines the history, scope, and effects of the revolution in America's response to crime since 1970. Henry Ruth and Kevin Reitz offer a comprehensive, long-term, pragmatic approach to increase public understanding of and find improvements in the nation's response to crime. Concentrating on meaningful areas for change in policing, sentencing, guns, drugs, and juvenile crime, they discuss such topics as new priorities for the use of incarceration; aggressive policing; the war on drugs; the need to switch the gun control debate to a focus on crime gun regulation; a new focus on offenders' transition from confinement to freedom; and the role of private enterprise. A book that rejects traditional liberal and conservative outlooks, The Challenge of Crime takes a major step in offering new approaches for the nation's responses to crime.

We Hold this Treasure

We Hold this Treasure
Author: Steven E. Koop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1998
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Based Upon interviews and correspondence with more than four hundred former patients, We Hold This Treasure is the inspiring story of the first state-funded hospital in the United States to provide care for indigent, handicapped children.

The Clionian

The Clionian
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1888
Genre: College students' writings, American
ISBN:

Before I Forget

Before I Forget
Author: Barbara Smith
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0553447122

"Working with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, B. and her husband Dan share B.'s unfolding story on dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's. Crafted in short chapters that interweave their narrative with ... advice, readers learn in small bites about dealing with Alzheimer's disease's day-to-day challenges, the family tensions, and ways of coping, as well as gain tips on diet and exercise from a lifestyle maven using her decades of expertise in a new and unexpected way"--

Minnesota

Minnesota
Author: William Watts Folwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1908
Genre: Minnesota
ISBN:

Pageant of Life

Pageant of Life
Author: Lowell Thomas
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781258201746

Musician's Resource

Musician's Resource
Author: Gwendolyn Freed
Publisher: Billboard Books
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This guide to programmes for musicians and singers lists for each entry the name, address, phone, fax, e-mail address, and Web site of the programme, as well as application requirements, financial aid opportunities, and other details.