Volume
29
Issue
4
First Page
447
Last Page
485
Abstract
This two-part article reports on the findings of the "prescriptive" phase of the American University Law School's Project on Public Inebriation.' First, we provide a framework or model designed to contribute to efforts to improve the rationality of police discretion and the quality of discretionary justice. Second, we seek to increase understanding of, and provide the basis for improving, the intake process whereby public inebriates are delivered to designated facilities-jails, detoxification centers, etc.-in criminal and decriminalized jurisdictions. While the article focuses on the discretionary power of police officers to remove street inebriates, it should increase awareness of problems of decriminalizing so-called victimless crimes and aid understanding of the public policy issues involved in responding to behavior involving both order maintenance and public health concerns.
Repository Citation
David Aaronson, C. Dienes & Michael Musheno,
Improving Police Discretion: Rationality in Handling Public Inebriates,
29
Administrative Law Review
447
(1977).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/1985