Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, an important question about reliance on police remains. The failure of the L.E.A.A. police transfusion to lower the crime rate suggests that more money for the nation's 500,000 men in blue will not help much. Says Assistant Chief Herb Hartz of Tulsa, Okla.: "If the police could...
Plea bargaining is the one fixture of the criminal-justice system that is indisputably efficient. It has, however, left observers cynical about its effects. Typically the state permits a defendant to plead guilty to a reduced charge in return for a sure, final and time-saving conviction. That leads to...
Not long ago, the idea of indeterminate sentencing seemed promising. In principle, that meant an offender was held in prison until authorities believed he was rehabilitated and ready for release. Punishment was supposedly going to fit the criminal, not the crime. But quite apart from the difficulties of achieving any...
President Ford last week endorsed so-called "flat-time" sentencing. The Illinois Law Enforcement Commission recently recommended a version of such a scheme to the general applause of many usually warring criminal-justice factions. Under the plan, anyone convicted of, say, a petty theft would get Two years while an...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. For 20 years, the Justice Department improperly allowed the CIA the sole authority to decide whether to prosecute federal criminal charges involving CIA employees and agents. Never confirmed in writing, the agreement apparently was made orally in 1954 by then Deputy Attorney General William Rogers, who later served...