CRIMINOLOGY IN THE LAW SCHOOLS.

The article focuses on the introduction of criminology in law schools in the U.S. It is practically universally acknowledged that the problem of crime is primarily a scientific problem--that is, it is amenable to analysis and solution by scientific methods. American students in criminal law are introduced to the subject usually from a non-scientific standpoint, the standpoint of precedent and tradition. It can hardly be expected, therefore, that, later, such students will readily acquire the scientific point of view in dealing with crime and the criminal. The work of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology is largely to render accessible the consensus of the best, scientific opinion in criminology and to bring this consensus to bear upon the actual problems of our criminal law. Through its translations the Institute is preparing a series of texts which may be made use of in courses in criminology, and there can scarcely be any doubt but that already a sufficient number of adequately equipped teachers exist in this country to give such instruction, provided law schools were at all interested in discovering them.