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...liberal line may be Utopian. But believing that more cops and tougher judges will stop crime is wishful as well, says Charles Silberman in his important new book, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.* Silberman's searching study faces some uncomfortable truths?like the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime?and debunks a host of myths along...
...starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to avoid Central Park after sundown. What was abnormal was a quarter-century of stable or declining crime rates between the end of Prohibition and 1960, an era that ended when the baby boom produced a huge generation of 14-to 24-year-olds, the prime age for crime...
...former member of FORTUNE magazine's board of editors and the author of highly acclaimed studies of race (Crisis in Black and White) and education (Crisis in the Classroom), Silberman began his Ford Foundation-funded research six years ago. His "working assumption," he told TIME, was that "the criminal justice system could make a huge difference." That proved overly hopeful. Police commissioners around the country, he learned, "simply do not know what to do to reduce crime." For example, expensive new communications systems have been widely installed to cut down the time it takes a police car to reach...
Burger's blast is hyperbolic fire for effect, but there is real and widespread cause for concern in the orgiastic growth of laws and lawyers. Says Laurence Silberman, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who is now counsel to the Wall Street law firm Dewey Ballantine: "The legal process, because of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy." Others wonder whether the rule of law will prevail in the U.S., or the rule of lawyers...
Then, in addition to a permanent staff and the part-timers, there is a category of "senior fellows," who often undertake research projects. Among the senior fellows are Laurence Silberman, a former Deputy Attorney General; John Robson, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; and-oh, yes-one Gerald R. Ford, the institute's only "distinguished fellow." The former President, who maintains an office at the institute and draws $40,000 a year from A.E.I., will participate in seminars or conferences at ten colleges and universities this fall under A.E.I. auspices. For further prestige, A.E.I. can boast the consulting...