Fall 2017 Symposium: The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society: Fifty Years Later

Authors

Roger FairfaxFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2018

Journal

George Washington Law Review

Volume

86

Issue

6

First Page

1465

Last Page

1471

Abstract

My longstanding interest in the Johnson Crime Commission traces back to my earlier scholarly work on the history of criminal law reform movements, going back to the progressive criminal justice reform agenda in the early twentieth century and the activities of private law-reform coalitions and government-sponsored crime commissions during the interwar period, including the Wickersham Commission and the American Law Institute's various model code projects. This research eventually led me to the Johnson Commission, the subject of this Symposium.

Recommended Citation

Roger Fairfax, Fall 2017 Symposium: The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society: Fifty Years Later, 86 George Washington Law Review 1465 (2018).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/2087