Jerome Skolnick

Jerome Skolnick is a professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology. He is also affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Skolnick has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University.

Clearance Rates

Jerome Skolnick has argued that clearance rates demonstrate the reality of the criminal justice conflict model by encouraging police to focus on appearing to do their job, rather than on actually doing their job. This is a comparable argument to that regarding standardized testing, and "teaching to the test". Skolnick noted one incident where police coerced a man to confess to over 400 burglaries so that they could have a high rate of crime solving (clearance).

Quotes

*"The law often, but not always, supports police deception."Citation| last =Skolnick | first =J. H. | title =Deception by Police | journal =Criminal Justice Ethics | volume =1 | issue =2| date =Summer/Fall 1982| url =http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/cje/html/sample1.html ]
*"Courtroom lying is justified within the police culture by the same sort of necessity rationale that courts have permitted police to employ at the investigative stage: The end justifies the means."

Writings by Jerome Skolnick

Most of his writings deal with criminal justice.
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| coauthors = | title =Justice without trial: law enforcement in democratic society | publisher = Wiley| year =1966 | location =New York| pages =| url =| doi = | id =OCLC: 1175611
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| coauthors =E. Currie | title =Crisis in American Institutions | publisher =Little, Brown | year =1970 | location =Boston | pages =| url =| doi = | id =OCLC: 76362 | isbn =
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| coauthors = | title =House of cards: the legalization and control of casino gambling| publisher =Little, Brown | year =1978 | location =Boston | pages =| url =| doi = | id = OCLC: 4004124| isbn =0316796999
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J.H. | coauthors =Kaplan J. | title =Criminal Justice; a Casebook| publisher =Foundation Press | year =1982 | location =Mineola, N.Y. | pages =| url =| doi = | id = OCLC: 7977551 | isbn =0882770535
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| coauthors = Bayley, D. H. | title =new blue line: police innovation in six American cities | publisher =Free Press | year =1986 | location =New York | pages =| url =| doi = | id = OCLC: 12840114| isbn =0029293103
*cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| coauthors =J. J. Fyfe | title =Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force | publisher =Free Press | year =1993 | location =New York | pages =| url =| doi = | id = OCLC: 27011930 | isbn =002929312X

Further reading

*cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Jerome H. Sjolnick: Police deception and brutality | work =Historical context within Jerome H. ...| publisher =Florida State University | url=http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/skolnick.htm | format =HTML | accessdate = 2007-09-09

References

ee also

*Black Panther Party
*Amadou Diallo
*John Birch Society
*Rodney King
*Abner Louima
*Justin Volpe