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Hostility toward police is not widespread, although most important variable in attitudes toward police is race, in Muskegon Heights, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo.

In this examination of whether the judge acted in good faith "with ample legal basis," concludes Recorder's Court Judge Crockett's "rulings were plausibly based on law."

Study compares social, psychological and occupational differences between Negros and whites in the 1951 population of state prison at Jackson.

Wayne County Prosecutor describes arrest and trial procedures for offenders as view by his office, in the 1967.

Describes Detroit origins of the movement; evaluates educational program.

(Reprinted as p.505-509 of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hearings in Detroit, Michigan, December 14, 1960 and December 15, 1960. Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1961) After considering Police Department's Defenses, reiterates opposition…

Assesses quality of justice meted out by American courts to blacks; states need for more black lawyers

Presents both statistical data and quotations from interviews of a sample of 233 Negro male arrestees.

Uses Flint Youth Study data to make structural functional analysis of delinquency among two samples of lower class Negro boys, aged twelve to seventeen, one with several police contacts per boy, the other with none.