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The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice was a group of 19 people appointed by President Johnson in 1967 to study the American criminal justice system. Headed by the then-Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, the commission is also known as Katzenbach Commission.^[a] Johnson assigned the group the task of fighting crime and repairing the American criminal justice system:

No agency of government has ever in our history undertaken to probe so fully and deeply into the problems of crime in our nation. I do not underestimate the difficulty of the assignment. But the very difficulty which these problems present and the staggering cost of inaction make it imperative that this task be undertaken.

— President Lyndon Johnson ^[1]

The Commission's final report was issued in 1967^[2] has been described as "the most comprehensive evaluation of crime and crime control in the United States at the time".^[3] It laid out reorganization plans for police departments^[4] and suggested a range of reforms.^[5] Several of the Commission's findings related to the poor treatment of juvenile offenders.^[6]

Notes

↑ At the publication of the report, Katzenbach was the United States Under Secretary of State.

References

↑ Johnson, Lyndon B. (March 8, 1965). "Special Message to the Congress on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice". Retrieved April 30, 2020.
↑ McGarrell, Edmund F. (1988). Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change. SUNY Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4384-1243-6. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.
↑ Greene, Helen Taylor; Gabbidon, Shaun L. (April 14, 2009). Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-5085-5. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.
↑ Dempsey, John S.; Forst, Linda S. (2011). An Introduction to Policing. Cengage Learning. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-111-13772-4. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.
↑ Giles, Howard (2002). Law Enforcement, Communication and Community. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-58811-255-2. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.
↑ Hess, Kären M.; Drowns, Robert W. (2009). Juvenile Justice. Cengage Learning. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-0-495-50437-5. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

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[1] At the publication of the report, Katzenbach was the United States Under Secretary of State.

[2] Johnson, Lyndon B. (March 8, 1965). "Special Message to the Congress on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice". Retrieved April 30, 2020.

[McGarrell1988-3] McGarrell, Edmund F. (1988). Juvenile Correctional Reform: Two Decades of Policy and Procedural Change. SUNY Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4384-1243-6. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

[GreeneGabbidon2009-4] Greene, Helen Taylor; Gabbidon, Shaun L. (April 14, 2009). Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-5085-5. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

[DempseyForst2011-5] Dempsey, John S.; Forst, Linda S. (2011). An Introduction to Policing. Cengage Learning. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-111-13772-4. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

[Giles2002-6] Giles, Howard (2002). Law Enforcement, Communication and Community. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-58811-255-2. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

[HessDrowns2009-7] Hess, Kären M.; Drowns, Robert W. (2009). Juvenile Justice. Cengage Learning. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-0-495-50437-5. Retrieved April 3, 2013 – via Google Books.

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