Judge and the Crime Burden

Authors

John Barker Waite, University of California, Hastings College of the LawFollow

Abstract

One does not happily charge the judiciary with responsibility for the country's burden of crime, but the responsibility does in fact exist. Judges, though they may not encourage crime, interfere with its prevention in various ways. They deliberately restrict police efficiency in the discovery of criminals. They exempt from punishment many criminals who are discovered and whose guilt is evident. More seriously still, they so warp and alter the public's attitude toward crime and criminals as gravely to weaken the country's most effective crime preventive.

Recommended Citation

John B. Waite, Judge and the Crime Burden, 54 Mich. L. Rev. 169 (1955).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol54/iss2/2