FROM ISSUE NUMBER 136 - SUMMER 1999 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prevention through community prosecution
THE single greatest influence on postwar American criminal justice policy was President Johnson’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, whose main report, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1967), was hailed by liberals and criminologists as a great breakthrough. Its conclusions quickly became the conventional wisdom, laying the foundation for criminal justice policy throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s.
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