LESS, NOT MORE - POLICE, COURTS, PRISONS

• NCJ Number: 7658
• Journal: Federal Probation Volume: 36 Issue: 3 Dated: (SEPTEMBER 1972) Pages: 12-18
• Author(s): B SMITH; H POLLACK
• Date Published: 1972
• Length: 7 pages
• Corporate Author: Administrative Office of the United States Courts
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE PERSONNEL OR FACILITIES IS SEEN AS INEFFECTIVE IN CONTROLLING AMERICA'S CRIME PROBLEM.

Abstract

MORE POLICE WILL ONLY EXACERBATE THE PROBLEM BY FURTHER OVERLOADING THE COURTS, MORE COURTS WILL ONLY PERPETUATE THE PLEA BARGAINING SYSTEM, AND MORE PRISONS WILL ONLY CONTINUE THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF PRESENT PRISON POLICIES. THE AUTHORS SUGGEST THAT BY LEGALIZING OR DECRIMINALIZING VICTIMLESS CRIMES THE DETERIORATION MIGHT BE HALTED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT).