NCJ Number
32679
Journal
SKEPTIC Issue: 4 Dated: (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1974) Pages: 44-51
Date Published
1974
Length
8 pages
Annotation
FIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE NOTABLES COMMENT ON A SPEECH BY FORMER US ATTORNEY GENERAL SAXBE ON THE CAUSES AND CURES OF CRIME IN AMERICA.
Abstract
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK TERMS SAXBE'S SPEECH 'WRONG-HEADED REHETORIC'. LOS ANGELES POLICE CHIEF EDWARD M. DAVIS SEES A MORE OPTIMISTIC OUTCOME THAN SAXBE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME. NORMAN CHAMBERLAIN, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL HALFWAY HOUSE ASSOCIATION THINKS SAXBE'S APPROACH TO SOLVING THE CRIME PROBLEM IS SIMPLISTIC AND IMPRACTICAL. THE PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE FOUNDATION, PATRICK V. MURPHY ALSO STATES THAT CRIME ISN'T THAT SIMPLE. WILLIAM SHOCKLEY, A NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PROFESSOR AT STANFORD URGES CRIMINOLOGISTS NOT TO DISCOUNT THE EFFECTS OF BIOLOGY AND GENETICS ON CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.