NCJ Number
75957
Date Published
1980
Length
73 pages
Annotation
This document is the sixth and final annual report on criminal justice research, development, and evaluation, written in compliance with the amended Crime Control Act of 1973.
Abstract
The report contains an account of the activities of the former National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice through January 1980, representing the concluding year of the first major Federal program for research on crime and justice. Topical areas covered by this report include new directions for justice research, the nature of crime, crime prevention with a focus on the community, new insights into policing, examinations of the pretrial process, the surge of reforms in sentencing, reappraisal in corrections, refinement of research methods, assessment of criminal justice programs, and application of research results. The appendix contains a description of the organization of the National Institute of law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and a listing of its component programs and offices. Under the JSIA, the Institute was renamed the National Institute of Justice.