In an unusual move, the American Society of Criminology
(ASC), the nation’s leading academic organization in the field, has taken a
shot at the administration of President Donald Trump, wrote Ted Gest for The Crime Report. The ASC’s executive board
issued a statement declaring that his administration’s early actions and
assertions on criminal justice “demonstrate an incongruity between
administrative policy efforts and well-established science about the causes and
consequences of crime.”
ASC leaders have made suggestions to previous administrations but not in
recent memory has the group issued a broad criticism of a U.S. president. The
group’s board said it is “concerned by the actions of the Trump administration
in its dissemination of misinformation and development of uninformed policy
initiatives. Not only are these initiatives unscientific, they are likely to
engender further cynicism about and discontent with the criminal justice system
that is harmful to citizens, to members of law enforcement, and to other
sources of social control.”
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