The Reform of Criminal Procedure

THE recent enactment of a bill to give the Supreme Court rule-maling power to draft a code of criminal procedure for the federal judiciary 1 has focused attention on the general status of reform in criminal procedure in this country.Criminal procedure-encompassing pre-trial and trial procedure, and appeals-concerns a relatively insignificant aspect of criminal administration, and procedural reform alone can scarcely be expected to provide a solution to the crime problem. 2 Existing inadequacies in police, parole and penal administration, for example, will dwarf considerably any profit which might be anticipated from this particular reform3 Fundamentally, moreover, correction of crime evils lies deeper than any of these items, for it is bound up with environmental and psychological factors which are only now being scientifically investigated and which may be affected by nothing short of a 1. Pub.L.