Programs in Law and Social Science

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The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California has received a Ford Foundation grant to support a program of studies of criminal law and social policy. The five-year grant was awarded to the Center and the Earl Warren Legal Center. Activity under the grant will focus on theoretical and empirical studies of “law and order.” Among the participants are Caleb Foote, who is studying the nature and uses of judicial discretion; Sanford Kadish and Mortimer Kadish, studying variations in the ways in which legal systems deal with departures from rules; Jerome Skolnick, on leave from the University of Chicago, studying with Richard Spiegelman the process of penal code revision; Paul Jacobs, working on the governance of police; and Rodney Stark, embarking on a series of field studies of crises in law and order.