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374 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. ix (1967)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0374 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD President Johnson appointed his Commission on Law Enforcement and Admin- istration of Justice in July 1965. The nineteen members, under the chairman- ship of then Attorney General Katzenbach, were instructed to inquire into the nature of crime and delinquency in America and to recommend comprehensive methods for preventing and controlling it. At the conclusion of its work in June 1967, the Commission had published a General Report, nine separate reports of individual task forces, five reports of field surveys, and forty-one consultant papers. The General Report summarizes all the Commission's conclusions and recommendations, and the task force reports constitute the supporting documents in the areas of assessment of the crime problem, police, courts, corrections, juvenile delinquency, science and technology, organized crime, narcotics and drug abuse, and drunkenness. The Commission employed a full-time staff of about forty professional personnel and utilized approximately 450 consultants and advisers. On the basis of the recommendations of the General Report, President Johnson proposed his compre- hensive federal assistance program to upgrade all aspects of state and local criminal justice operations. In over twenty-five states, governors have ap- pointed state criminal justice committees to carry forward the work of the Commission. Mayors of several cities-small, medium and large-have ap- pointed law-enforcement councils to co-ordinate and improve police, court, cor- rectional, and crime-prevention activities on a municipal or metropolitan basis. The various reports of the Commission represent the most sweeping study of crime and criminal justice in the United States since President Hoover's Wicker- sham Commission in the early 1930's. This issue could not-and is not intended to-summarize all the findings and recommendations of the 1967 reports. The articles here do present some of the more interesting lines of inquiry pursued by the Commission and highlight some of the conclusions that, despite their impor- tance, did not receive great attention in the mass media's reporting of the Com- mission's work. The contributing authors all participated in the Commission's studies either in staff or consultant capacities. Their articles reflect in full measure crime's challenge in a free society. The Commission's publications include: The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (the General Report); the task force reports (The Police, The Courts, Corrections, Organized Crime, Science and Technology, Drunkenness, Narcotics, Juvenile Delinquency, and Assessment of Crime); and Field Survey I: Report on a Pilot Study in the District of Columbia on Victimization and Attitudes toward Law Enforcement (Bureau of Social Science Research); Field Survey II: Criminal Victimization in the United States: A Report of a National Survey (National Opinion Research Center) ; Field Survey III: Studies in Crime and Law Enforcement in the Major Metropolitan Areas (University of Michigan); Field Survey IV: The Police and the Community (University of California at Berkeley); Field Survey V: A National Survey of Police and Community Relations (Michigan State University). ix

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