Preliminary reports and notes of the Wickersham Commission, 1929-1931.

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Preliminary reports and notes of the Wickersham Commission, 1929-1931.

1929-1931

Includes preliminary printings of the report of Federal Prohibition Enforcement, the Survey of Criminal Statistics in the United States, and An Analysis of the Surveys of the Administration of Criminal Justice. Also bound in are memoranda by Henry W. Anderson, Nonte M. Lemann, Alfred Bettman and Frank J. Loesch.

317, 159, [2], 106 p., [23], 5, 6, 4, 2 leaves ; 37 cm.

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