Recommendations

1. The University must recognize its own growing perceived importance in this critical area, and determine how it will respond to the State's needs. In particular, the University should recognize that its recruitment of minorities as students and as faculty is crucial to increase the pool of qualified minority candidates for positions in the criminal justice system.

2. The University must clearly define its mission and responsibility to the changing population of the State, and, in particular, examine the relationship of the increasing Latino population and the criminal justice system.

3. The University must determine its desire and responsibility for the development of academic law or criminology curricula within it. It should consider the development of a new professional school dedicated to the education of criminal justice professionals, and to interdisciplinary research about criminal justice issues.

4. The University should increase its involvement in and promote the goals of the Presley Institute. Faculty should be recruited who can contribute to the success of the Institute.

5. The University should consider the development of continuing education programs in criminal justice, with emphasis upon the treatment and employment of minorities in the system.

6. The University should expand Early Outreach Programs to promote careers in criminal justice as desirable and obtainable for minority youth.

7. The University should promote research activity in the following critical areas:

a. The development of better methods of recruitment, screening, and retention of personnel in law enforcement and corrections.

b. The examination of social, educational and economic factors which contribute to the increasing numbers of Latinos in the inmate population.

c. The development of new, innovative and practical philosophies which can be applied to improve the criminal justice system.

d. The development of new instruments and techniques for assessment, not only of candidates for criminal justice employment, but of the success of the system itself.

Many issues, models, and policies exist throughout the criminal justice system to which the University could direct its attention and expertise in order to advance, important areas of research and foster greater cooperation among other institutions in the State. infectious diseases, drugs, MDS, and a multitude of psychiatric disorders are but a few of many subjects in which UC Health Science faculty and instructors could expand existing knowledge. Faculty can then disseminate this knowledge to local and state agencies for additional discussion and evaluation. The Robert Wood Johnson's new program on mental health services for youth provides an opportunity for the juvenile justice system, the public schools, and the University and state agencies to generate new approaches to the multi-layered problems addressed in this report. AS the Foundation community becomes more aware of the need for institutional and agency collaboration, the University of California has a unique opportunity to be a major facilitator in the war against crime, a war that must address preventive methods at all levels -- youth, families, schools, juvenile systems, the courts, health care, and the criminal justice model itself.

1. Crime and Delinquency in California, 1985, state of California, Department of Justice

2. California Prisoners and Parolees, 1986. Department of Corrections, Sacramento, California

3. In Black Perspectives on Crime and the Criminal Justice system, Robert L. Woodson, Ed.,

G. K. Hall & Col, Boston, 1971, p. 44.