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Rash. Little of the Nixon-inspired war on crime has been directed beyond front-line measures. "The whole program operates on the assumption that crime is a superficial rash," says Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg, former executive director of the President's crime commission, and now an adviser to George McGovern. "Continuing denial of opportunity, combined with the anonymity of city life, is destroying the social pressure to abstain from crime." Guessing that the odds against catching the average burglar "are no better than 50 to 1," Vorenberg suggests that "crime may seem like a good bet for those...
...from the question of "prisoners' rights," a growing number of penologists believe that prisons have proved unable to reform or rehabilitate their inmates. A task force for the Governor of Wisconsin recently recommended that all adult prisons in the state close by 1975. Says Harvard Law Professor James Vorenberg: "You just have to close prisons down, but you've got to develop some real alternatives...
...still remains somewhat fanciful. As Illinois Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn observes, "We have some wolves among the human population. The prison system still contains 50% aggressive criminals." Some would quarrel with his percentage, but no expert argues that all the walls should come down. The point, says Harvard's Vorenberg, is that the emphasis should shift; every prison administrator ought to be saying: "How many of them need to be here...
...Vorenberg, "moderately active" as a Democratic speech writer in the past, said that the plank on "Law, Crime and Justice" which he is researching would probably oppose Federal block grants to local criminal justice agencies...
...Vorenberg said his research would also treat wiretapping and gun control, an issue "complicated by the assault on Governor (George C., Wallace (D-Ala.), since he's one of the people opposed...