Society for the Prevention of Crime
The Society for the Prevention of Crime (SPC), German: Society for the prevention of criminal offenses , was founded in New York City in 1877 . From 1894 led by Charles Parkhurst , the society saw its task in the support of criminal law reforms and the promotion of legal education. She also worked in prisoner care. In 1894 she was instrumental in the constitution and work of the Lexow Committee , named after New York Senator Clarence Lexow , which investigated corruption within the New York police force. The results of the commission of inquiry, published in 5 volumes in 1895, comprise more than 10,000 pages and contributed significantly to the defeat of Tammany Hall in the New York elections of 1894 and the election of reform mayor William Lafayette Strong . Furthermore, the company participated in the investigations of the so-called Albany Crime Commission in the 1930s . Between 1946 and 1948 she ran a popular radio program to fight crime. In 1948 the company took over the Vocational Foundation Bureau to create employment for parole offenders. Since 1956, the company's activities have been limited to providing financial support to Columbia Law School in the field of criminal law research.
literature
- Jennifer Fronc: New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 ISBN 0-226-26609-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933), clergyman and social reformer.
- ↑ Clarence Lexow (1852-1910), German-American lawyer and later senator.
- ↑ 1827-1900.
- ^ Archives of the SPC in the holdings of Columbia University