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Citizen Participation in Criminal Justice: Opportunity, Constraint, and the Arrogance of the Law
Abstract
Tested is the applicability of some social science concepts drawn from
the 1960s "war on poverty" to the 1970s "war on
crime." One central hypothesis is suggested: the criminal justice
system is different from other social policy areas in which citizen
participation has been attempted in that decisionmakers in criminal
justice have been able to maintain a collective mobilization of bias
against citizen participation in policy matters. Scholarly material
& the personal experiences of a voluntary action scholar who
became an administrator of a volunteer program for criminal justice
system reform are discussed. If forces of citizen participation are to
make an impact on criminal justice, decisive & effective
organizational strategies will have to be developed to deal with
mobilized bias & forces of institutional cooptation. 2 Tables.
Journal
(January-April 1975)
vol4
no1
pages69-74
Categories
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Citizen/Political Nonprofits
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Citizen Participation and Involvement
