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...Truman, putting his life on the line to fight corruption in Missouri. Some trivia: early in his career, Vaughn played an amusing character in a half-hour Hitchcock mystery. His name is A. Dunster Lowell (we all know what the A stands for), better known as the Boston Terrier, criminologist. Relying on the sophisticated gadgetry concocted by his ex-Harvard physics prof (an absentminded old codger), Lowell solves a homicide before the murderer can say U.N.C.L.E. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Died. Orlando Wilson, 72, criminologist and former Chicago police chief; of a stroke; in Poway, Calif. Wilson was dean of criminology at Berkeley when Mayor Richard Daley drafted him to reform a police department charged with corruption and inefficiency. Wilson created a special 200-man squad to crack down on police malfeasance, increased street patrols, reduced paper work and otherwise upgraded the force before retiring...
...defensive living and improved police techniques deal only with one end of the criminal-justice system. Police have long been able "to produce more arrests than the courts and prisons could dispose of rationally and efficiently," says Criminologist Hans Mattick of the University of Illinois in Chicago. For reasons of both deterrence and fairness, "speedy law enforcement is most important," says Phoenix Lawyer John Frank. "The Administration could do a hell of a lot more in that area." Funds are needed for more judges, expanded courtroom facilities and better administrative techniques. Furthermore, penologists agree that the entire prison system needs...
...course, calling for greater social justice, a plea that is often met by the firm cry of "permissiveness." Berkeley Criminologist Jerry Skolnick observes, "It is like a symbolic battle-between those who want to appear tough and those who want to appear soft." What works is what matters. Northwestern's Inbau, for instance, favors stiffened sentences and reduction of technical legal defenses, but also points out that some potentially effective "soft" approaches have not been tried-notably, enforced gun-control laws and elimination of police responsibility for some "victimless" crimes like gambling and vice. Inbau credits the Administration with...
Died. Eleanor Glueck, 74, Harvard criminologist and a pioneering theorist on the causes of juvenile delinquency; in Cambridge, Mass. Working with her husband Sheldon, a law professor at Harvard, Mrs. Glueck was among the earliest collectors of statistical data on crime in the U.S. The Gluecks spent more than four decades attempting to reduce typical criminal patterns to scientific terms. Out of their work came scores of books and articles stressing the importance of family environment in preventing juvenile delinquency. Their most publicized effort was the much-criticized Glueck Social Prediction Tables, by which future lawbreakers could ostensibly be spotted...