Study Guide 6

The 4-part charge of the Wickersham Commission

Three  areas of investigation under the category “the causes of crime.

(1) Criminal Statistics,

(2) Crime and the Foreign Born (persons from other countries)

(3) The Cost of Crime

The Author of the final Wickersham Report

Two challenges

Graft

         Six abuses by police and prosecutors that the Wickersham Commission set out to correct.

(1) Use of the "third degree"

(2) bribery (quid pro quo)

(3) coercion of witnesses (forcing false, repressing true testimony)

(4) entrapment (police inducing illegal acts)

(5) fabricating evidence

(6) illegal wiretapping.

The end report -- suggestion

OW Wilson

President Johnson’s Law Enforcement Office

The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice report

Goal of that report

Survey instrument

Modern-day agency

The end report

Experiment conducted on police methods in 1972

Three data instruments

Findings

The results

Law-enforcement-officer subculture

“Standards of evidence” burden of proof