A History of Modern American Criminal Justice by Joseph F. Spillane David B. Wolcott

Author:Joseph F. Spillane, David B. Wolcott [Joseph F. Spillane, David B. Wolcott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology
ISBN: 9781412981347
Google: C8E5DQAAQBAJ
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2013-01-15T03:36:52+00:00

CODA: THE PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Fifty-five years after a crisis of confidence led Clevelanders to initiate a survey of criminal justice practice in their city, a national crisis of confidence precipitated the largest criminal justice research survey yet conducted. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, responding to the growing political salience of the crime issue and public concerns over rising crime rates and perceived lawlessness, proposed the creation of a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Noting that, “we must arrest and reverse the trend toward lawlessness,” President Johnson instructed the Commission to study the problems of crime and criminal justice, to find a more “fair and effective” plan of attack.

The Commission quickly determined that its mission would be to “distill and set forth extant knowledge about our system of criminal procedure.” In doing so, the Commission and its various task forces eventually published a massive public report in 1967, which became a best-selling book in 1968. Over 800 pages long, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society was, more than anything, a product of the developments in research and professionalism in the decades since the Cleveland survey. The commission argued that, “a significant reduction in crime is possible” if criminal justice systems met the following seven objectives:

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