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MEMORANDUM RE: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE'S YOUTH AUTHORITY PROGRAM 1 (1948)

handle is hein.ali/aliyouth0044 and id is 1 raw text is: MEMAORANDUM RE THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE'S YOUTH AUTHORITY PROGRA M # In 1938, The American Law Institute, impelled by growing public concern about delinquency and crime, embarked on a program designed to improve the administration of criminal justice in the United States. The Institute enlisted leaders in criminology, psychiatry, sociology and social service work to collaborate with lawyers and judges in an intensive two year study. Summary of Findin.. The rate of crime in the United States is the highest cf any modern nation. The failure of our machine-age society to prevent crime is seen in the fact that between 1923 and 1940 the numbers in state and federal prisons (excluding jails) increased seven times faster than the population. Children and youth under twenty-one make up a shocking percentage of annual. commitments to correctional and penal institutions - up to 40% in some states. As would be expected from these figures, minors oommit over half of all auto thefts, a third of all robberies, burglaries and other thefts, one in five rapes, one in seven murders. The failure of the traditional administration of criminal justice adequately to protect society from delinquency and crime is shown by the fact that mass imprisonment makes more criminals than it rehabilitates. More than half of all prison inmates have done time -1-