TWO MILLION UNNECESSARY ARRESTS. REMOVING A SOCIAL SERVICE CONCERN FROM THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

Nimmer, Raymond T.

Item #: 13861

Pages: ix, 202 pp.
Published: Chicago; American Bar Foundation; 1971.

Series: AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS
Subjects: CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SOCIAL WELFARE & INSURANCE

Two million arrests yearly--mostly of non-disorderly skidrow derelict men--is proving an embarassing waste of theresources of our criminal justice system. Nimmer believesit would be better to stop, to simply abandon this terriblerevolving door process of arrest and rearrest.Outlines of the problem and its solutions.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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