There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is definitely not one of them. In this field, each generation seems to undo the last generation's reforms. Each generation resurrects old failures and trots them out as new. A previous generation hailed indeterminate sentencing as a great

This collection is from discussions at a conference by a group of scholars who study crime or criminal justice at Stanford Law School in October 1995. The central question for discussion was the relationship between crime and criminal justice.