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...leading general in President Johnson's War on Crime is no fire-eating, cigar-chomping prosecutor, willing to work with existing laws so long as they put criminals behind bars. As Director of the National Crime Commission, James Vorenberg wants to overhaul those laws to make them more effective and equitable, instead of just applying them more energetically...
...Vorenberg's first and most important problem -- his "sharpest shock" -- has been simply the lack of accurate information about crime. He believes that in order to suggest constructive changes in the law, and in methods of law enforcement, the commission must analyze the nature and causes of crime--the volume and effects of different kinds of offenses, and the characteristics of victims and offenders...
...Vorenberg's assignment, however, is much broader than merely reporting and analyzing the facts. According to President Johnson, who called on him to take a leave of absence as Professor of Law at Harvard, Vorenberg must "get to the innermost recesses of the problem," formulate a "national strategy," and suggest legislation over the entire range of criminal justice. And so, in addition to the assessment task force, he has designated groups to study...
...model code -- which includes strict guidelines for police questioning and the taking of confessions -- will be presented to the American Law Institute in May. It is being written by Paul M. Bator, Charles Fried and James K. Vorenberg '49, professors of Law, and Edward L. Barrett, dean of the University of California Law School...
...admire your essay on criminal justice [July 16] as clear and to the point. Professor Vorenberg may find that he is moving us forward on a far broader front than the one of immediate concern to him. The administration of law, even at the level of the police function, calls for discretionary decisions by public officials. If we want to preserve inviolate the rights to privacy and protection afforded us by the Constitution, all actions by public servants must eventually reach the eyes of the public. Tape-delay technology offers us the means, and any public procedures that have traditionally...