Californians worried by the cost of their state's mounting crime rate last week found a solution of sorts. A $100,000, 260-page report urged the state to "synthesize a logical and complete functional definition of the system of criminal justice" in order to overcome "the inevitable problems relating to the interfacing of separable areas of endeavor." To do this, of course, state authorities would need an "indication of required quantitative relations between operational effectiveness and dollars expended in the various functional areas" and might do well to use a "taxonomic matrix for organizing and presenting offender characteristics."
This opaque advice sounded as...
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