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- Title
THE ACCIDENTAL CRIME COMMISSION: ITS LEGACIES AND LESSONS.
- Authors
ZIMRING, FRANKLIN E.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the lessons and legacies of the first national crime commission Wickersham Commission established by U.S. President Herbert Hoover in 1929. It informs that the Commission was headed by George W. Wickersham, former attorney general, focused on the Prohibition and observance of the Federal Volstead Act in the U.S. It discusses several elements of the Wickersham Model including staff dominance, an emphasis on empirics, and the Commission as ceremony of adjustment.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Wickersham Commission; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; WICKERSHAM, George W.; LEGACIES; PROHIBITION, United States, 1920-1933
- Publication
Marquette Law Review, 2013, Vol 96, Issue 4, p995
- ISSN
0025-3987
- Publication type
Article