New York, Aug. 8—The conventional wisdom is that one needs to spend one’s time in probing the causes of our social maladies. A few very bright men (e.g., James Q. Wilson, Ernest van den Haag) have been trying to tell us, particularly in the field of penology, that it would be splendid if we were to discover the causes of crime, or the techniques of rehabilitation, but it is our absorption with these pursuits that distracts us from coping with crime. Weeks after the anarchic outburst in New York City, the talk still tends to dwell on the causes of it. But what should be done?
Herewith a few propositions:
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