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MEMORANDUM FOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE . . . TO PREPARE A MODEL PENAL CODE 1 ([June 1951])

handle is hein.ali/mpc0680 and id is 1 raw text is: THE AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE Memorandum for Advisory Committee on Criminal Law The Proposal to Prepare A Model Penal Code For almost twenty years the Institute's agenda of unfin- ished business has included a proposal to prepare a model penal code. The project was advanced in 1931 by a Joint Committee on Improvement of Criminal Justice composed of representatives of the American Bar Association, the American Law School Association and the Institute, with the endorsement of the Bar Association and the Schools (see A.B.A. Rep. vol. 56, p. 413). It was sup- ported in December, 1934, after a year of study by an able Advisory Committee whose report the Institute itself approved (see the American Law Institute Reports in Relation to Future Work of the Institute (1935]). Funds for the project had not been provided when the chance arose to grapple with one aspect of th., problem, the treatment of youthful offenders over Juvenile Court age. A satisfactory result within this narrow but important area le4 naturally to revival of consideration of the larger under- taking. Th model code p5oposal was accordingly renewed and the requirements for its financing were ,submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation. The Foundation was apparently not satisfied upon a number of the issues posed in making the substantial grant involved. Do the fial problems lie in the realm of a more near.Cy adequate law - to which a model code would contribute or do they lie in the questions that still have to be answered more adequately in the behaviorist sciences? Would a model code written at once -1-