The Problem of Law Enforcement |
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Page 7 - Congress that the said institutions be so planned and limited in size as to facilitate the development of an integrated correctional system which will assure the proper classification and segregation of Federal prisoners according to their character, the nature of the crime they have committed, their mental condition, and such other factors as should be taken into consideration in providing an individualized system of discipline, care, and treatment of persons committed to such institutions (18 USC...
Page 2 - A surprising number of our people, otherwise of responsibility in the community, have drifted into the extraordinary notion that laws are made for those who choose to obey them. And in addition, our law-enforcement machinery is suffering from many infirmities arising out of its technicalities, its circumlocutions, its involved procedures, and too often, I regret, from inefficient and delinquent officials.
Page 7 - To be effective the training and education given a prisoner must meet the special needs and be adapted to the capabilities of that individual prisoner. It is, therefore, necessary that the prisoner should be studied by competent specialists in order that an understanding may be reached as to the personality and ability of each individual, the defects which led to crime and whether or not the individual can through treatment and training be helped to correct or cure these defects.
Page 7 - That the State of New York should develop a prison system which will protect society from the criminal and his evil deeds by endeavoring to re-educate and retrain the men and women in prison so that these men and women may be fitted upon release to become useful members of the community. This is imperative because 92% of these prisoners return to Society within a comparatively short period of time after their incarceration.
Page 10 - Introduction to this book, says that the study "shows that the Massachusetts Reformatory (probably one of the best in the country) failed in 80 per cent of the cases studied, to do what it is meant to do. It did not reform these men, for they continued their criminal careers, though not quite so actively as before.
Page 4 - Findings in the present review of published investigations are fairly conclusive with reference to the tendency for crimes against property and vagrancy to increase during periods of economic depression and decrease during prosperity, and for alcoholism to increase during periods of prosperity and decrease during depression.
Page 1 - ... of freedom, the basis of all ordered liberty, the vital force of progress. It must not come to be in our Republic that it can be defeated by the indifference of the citizen, by exploitation of the delays and entanglements of the law, or by combinations of criminals. Justice must not fail because the agencies of enforcement are either delinquent or inefficiently organized. To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.
Page 2 - ... be in the presence and under the superintendence of a judge having power to instruct the jury as to the law and advise them in respect of the facts ; and that the verdict shall be unanimous.
Page 5 - A study of one hundred and forty-five young adults in state penal institutions found "the majority of these men began their delinquent careers as children. They presented behavior problems in school and later became...
Page 3 - As soon as proper state legislation has gone far enough to make a sound foundation," declares the Commission, "the gathering, compiling and publishing of nation-wide criminal statistics should be committed as a whole to the Bureau of the Census.