ASC - The American Society of Criminology

The American Academy of Criminal Society is an international institution where members pursue academic, scientific and expert knowledge on crime and crime measurements, causes, consequences, prevention, management, and treatment.

At the American Congress of Society (ASC) Annual Meeting in 1994, Attorney General Janet Reno said criminal charges to provide emergency assistance to deal with the serious crime and criminal justice issues facing the state and the administration I called for a scholar's pool. Her speech at ASC confirmed 12 such questions. On the second day after she appealed to us, the ASC National Policy Board gathered and established twelve corresponding working groups. The chairpersons of these task forces must find their professional collaborators in the shortest possible time. Within a few months the team completed their report and submitted it to Reno's Attorney General.

The investigated criminal scholars include 1) researchers at the American Criminal Society, 2) ASC Sutherland Awards 'winners, the organization' s highest crime theory award, (3) inter - ASC presidents and now with. The president before 1997 was included in the previous survey. Respondents were asked to answer based on existing empirical studies, not views on the death penalty. Nearly 78% of the respondents said that the death penalty in the province does not reduce the murder rate. In addition, 91% of respondents said they would support the death penalty to win crime, and 75% responded that they can not decentralize state and country legislation to focus on genuine. 94% of the total solutions to crime problems agree that there is little empirical evidence that there is a deterrent effect on the death penalty.