Abstract
In a unique study of a much neglected area of American crime, a group of citizens in Westchester County, N.Y., set out to learn how persons arrested for petty crime are handled in their communities. Misdemeanors, they point out, constitute 90 per cent of all crime, but little is known about what happens to the suspects between arrest and final disposition.
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