Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 345, 19 October 1911 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, "OCTOBER 19, 1911.

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Prison Association Hears Criminal Statistics Methods Are Lax

(National News Association) OMAHA. Oct. 19. In the annuaHreport of the standing committee on criminal statistics read before the delegates to the American Prison association convention, Eugene Smith, chairman of the committee, contracts the lax methods of keeping criminal statistics in this country, due to the separate Jurisdiction of the states, to the uniform and complete system in vogue in Kuropean cities. The committee finds that, "Every court, every prison, the police froce in every city of every state, is a separate, institution maintaining its records upon its own individual plan, without much serious effort to assimilate its plan to that of other like institutions even within its own state. Certain entries are n.ade regarding each person convicted of crime, baed mainly upon the answer given by the convict himself to questions put. to him. While this system prevails the classification of prisoners contained in our criminal statistics, stating how many are natives and how many foreign borne, stating how many are married and how many single, cannot be received with any confidence in their accuracy. Is Only One Method. "In this deplorable, chaotic, condition of the very sources from which all statistical matter must be drawn,

it is hopeless to look for any improvement in our census statistics, unless a radical change can be affected in state administration. The records of the police, the courts, the prisons, can be made of statistical value only by the action of the state itself; and there is apparent but one method by which the state can act to this end. There should be established in each state a permanent board or bureau of criminal statistics, whether as an independent body or as a department of the office of the Attorney General or of the secretary of state. This bureau should be charged with the duty of prescribing the forms in which the records of all criminal courts, police boards and prisons, shall be kept asd of specifying the items regarding which entries shall be made. The law creating the bureau should direct that the forms prescribed by it should be uniform as to all institutions of the same class to which they respectively apply and be binding upon all institutions within the state. The bureau should issue general instructions governing the collecting and verification of the facts to be stated in the record; it should also be its duty, and it should be vested with power, to inspect and supervise the records and ea enforce compliance with its requirements. Such a bureau might secure a collection of reliable statistical matter, uniform in quality throughout the state. Indiana is now, it is believed the only state in the Union where such a bureau exists. "But even this result is not enough. Supposing all the criminal records within each separate state to be made uniform throughout the state, still they would not be available for comparison or for the purpose of a national census, unless all the states could be brought to adopt the same form and method so that all criminal records throughout the Union could be kept upon one uniform plan. Here we en

counter a serious obstacle. The diversity and conflict of state laws are srying evils of our time, universally recognized and denounced and yet the most strenuous efforts to bring about harmonious action between the legislatures of separate states have always failed. No single statute, however, skillfully drawn, proposed for universal acceptance, has ever yet

I been adopted by all the states in the

Union. Still, the states must act in unison upon this matter of uniform criminal records or else our statistics or crime must continue to be a national failure and a national reproach. "Not the slightest reflection can be cast upon the Federal Census Bureau; on the contrary, when consideration is taken of the fragmentary and chaotic state records with which the census bureau had to deal, the systematic and orderly results and the general deductions embraced in the census report of 1904 must be regarded as a signal scientific triumph."

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