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Gary LaFree

Gary LaFree is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the Universities of Maryland, College Park[?] and New Mexico[?]. He is a former chairman of both the Crime, Law, and Deviance section of the American Sociological Society[?] and a division of the American Society of Criminology[?].

"The criminal justice system is composed of a sprawling bureaucracy with many separate agencies that are largely autonomous and independent."

Writings by Gary LaFree

Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America[?] (1998)

External Link

Gary LaFree, Ph.D. (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/faculty/lafree/) (official)

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