Planning and the play of power: Resource acquisition among criminal justice agencies

The article reports a portion of the findings of a national study of manpower planning in criminal justice. The study and its findings have been reported more fully elsewhere. The present article reexamines and reconsiders the data specifically with respect to public policymaking, the behavior of public organizations, and the role of fact and value in the allocation of government resources.     

T.V. crooks: Implications of latent role models for theories of delinquency

Reviewing the literature on the effect of television viewing on behavior, the authors suggest that if indeed the content of television programs can encourage antisocial behavior in some groups of viewers, the image of crime and characteristics of criminal actors presented on television may play an important role in the adoption of criminal behavior by lower-class adolescents. Data are presented that indicate the variance between the view of crime presented by the television media and that found in official statistics. The implications of this discrepancy for models of delinquency are discussed.