Throughout the history of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), which was created in 1968 through the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, professional and, purportedly, objective evaluations of the agency have been published and congressional hearings have been conducted concerning the performance of the agency and possible directions for the future. The congressional activity has resulted in amended legislation which has affected the purpose, administration, process, program, and level of federal budgetary support of LEAA. The evaluations have made criticisms and offered recommendations regarding those elements of the LEAA program. / This dissertation examines those published evaluations and assesses the degree of concurrence which they have to the amended legislation related to LEAA. The evaluations are described, their place in the congressional hearing process is examined, and the relationship they have to the legislation is assessed. / The findings of this study provide evidence that limited concurrence between evaluations and legislation exists. It is demonstrated that the evaluations are included in congressional liberations, that agreement among the various evaluations concerning recommendations is infrequent, and that Congress makes changes to the legislation without concurrence of those evaluations. The degree to which Congress adheres to recommendations of published evaluations in the case of LEAA leads to the conclusion that factors other than evaluators' recommendations affect legislation and that evaluations are conducted and published for purposes other than to influence legislation. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2873. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74498 |
| Contributors | ANDERSON, PATRICK RANDALL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 397 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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