REFORM IN
ADMINISTRATION
OF JUSTICE

52

VOLUME LII

THE ANNALS

MARCH, 1914

EDITOR: EMORY R. JOHNSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR: CLYDE L. KING

EDITOR BOOK DEPARTMENT: ROSWELL C. MCCREA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: JAMES C. BALLAGH, G. G. HUEBNER, S. S. HUEBNER, CARL
KELSEY, J. P. LICHTENBERGER, L. S. ROWE, ELLERY

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Copyright, 1914, by

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CONTENTS

PART ONE-CIVIL

Page

METHODS OF SELECTING AND RETIRING JUDGES IN A MET-

ROPOLITAN DISTRICT...

1

Albert M. Kales, Of the Chicago Bar and Professor of Law,

Northwestern University Law School

THE RECALL OF DECISIONS.

13

Moorfield Storey, Boston, Mass.

CONSTITUTIONAL GROWTH THROUGH RECALL OF DECISIONS 25

Donald R. Richberg, Director, Legislative Reference Bureau,

Progressive Party, New York City

3

THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK.......

George Haven Putnam, New York

37

THE POLICE AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE....

George H. McCaffrey, Harvard University

56

THE USE OF THE PARDONING POWER...

61

William W. Smithers, Of the Philadelphia Bar; author of Executive

Clemency in Pennsylvania

UNIFORM LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES

67

Walter George Smith, Of the Philadelphia Bar

ORGANIZATION OF THE BAR.

77

Herbert Harley, Secretary of the American Judicature Society,

Chicago

PART TWO-CRIMINAL

CRIME FROM A STATISTICAL VIEWPOINT..

83

John Koren, President of American Statistical Association, Boston,

Mass.

CRITIQUE ON RECORDING DATA CONCERNING CRIMINALS... 89

William Healy, Director, Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, Chicago

THE EVOLUTION OF OUR CRIMINAL PROCEDURE..

93

Samuel Scoville, Jr., Member of the Bars of Philadelphia and New

York

REFORM IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

102

William E. Mikell, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania