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he Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) announced in 1985 that it would issue grants for a “law enforcement–based crime prevention program␣.␣.␣.␣to demonstrate the importance of crime prevention as a major police activity of equal professional stature to patrol and investigative activities in the country’s major police and sheriff’s departments.”1␣ The initiative led at least two of the demonstra...

In this article, the authors reflect on the lessons of their Stanford Prison Experiment, some 25 years after conducting it. They review the quarter century of change in criminal justice and correctional policies that has transpired since the Stanford Prison Experiment and then develop a series of reform-oriented proposals drawn from this and related studies on the power of social situations and...

Despite statutes and rules of statewide applicability, juvenile justice administration varies consistently with urban, suburban, and rural social structure and context. In urban counties, which are more heterogenous and diverse, juvenile justice intervention is more formal, bureaucratized, and due process-oriented. Formality is associated with greater severity in pre-trial detention and sentenc...