Continuing the Struggle for Justice: 100 Years of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Preface
Part I: The Views From NCCD's Five Presidents
1. Rational Crime Treatment - Charles L. Chute
2. A Critique of the Model Penal Code Sentencing Proposals - Will C. Turnbladh
3. Milton Rector: Forty Years of Reform (interview) - Joan Potter
4. Doing Violence to the Crime Problem: A response to the Attorney General's Task Force - Diana R. Gordon
5. Hate the Player and Hate the Game: The Politics of the War Against the Young - Barry Krisberg
Part II: The Need for a Separate System of Justice for Children
6. The Juvenile Court in the Service State - Roscoe Pound
7. The Youth Service Bureau: A Key Delinquency Prevention (Introduction) - Sherwood Norman
8. Safety and Welfare Review of the California Youth Authority - Barry Krisberg
9. Creating Effective Juvenile Justice Systems - Orlando L. Martinez and Claus D. Tjaden
Part III: Alternatives to Mass Incarceration
10. The Extravagance of Imprisonment - Milton G. Rector
11. The State of Corrections Today: A Triumph of Pluralistic Ignorance - Allen Breed
12. The "Prisons Pays" Studies: Research or Ideology? - Christopher Baird
13. Making Paroling Policy Explicit - Don M. Gottfredson, Peter B. Hoffman, Maurice H. Sigler, and Leslie T. Wilkins
14. Impediments to Penal Reform - Norval Morris
Part IV: Breaking the Cycle of Violence
15. The Michigan Structured Decision-Making System - Christopher Baird, Dennis Wagner, Rod Caskey, and Deborah Neuenfeldt
16. The Relative Validity of Actuarial and Consensus-Based Risk Assessment Systems - Christopher Baird and Dennis Wagner
17. Improved Decision Making in Child Maltreatment Cases - Raelene Freitag and Madeline Wordes-Noya
18. The Plight of Children Whose Parents Are in Prison - Barry Krisberg and Carolyn Engel Temin
Part V: The Link Between Social Justice and Criminal Justice
19. Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing - Rose Matsui Ochi
20. Organizing for Community Policing - Patrick V. Murphy
21. Violence, U.S.A: Riots and Crime - Marvin E. Wolfgang
22. The Color of Law and the Issue of Color: Race and the Abuse of Police Power - Hubert G. Locke
23. Navigating the Hidden Obstacles to Ex-Offender Reentry - Anthony C. Thompson
24. Taking It to the Streets - Kim Taylor-Thompson
25. We Do Not Deserve to Kill - Marvin E. Wolfgang
Part VI: Conclusion: Continuing the Struggle for Justice

This centennial collection of essays and original research studies captures the varied spectrum of philosophies and concerns of the Board and staff of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) over the past century . The criminological experts represented in this volume are renowned for their study and research into the far reaches of this field of study. As a chronicle of the NCCD's development, editors Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, and Christopher Baird include some of the most groundbreaking material to come out of the workings of this unique American institution.