Juvenile Delinquency in Canada: The Report of the Department of Justice Committee on Juvenile DelinquencyRecommendation 95, on the "importance of fusing the processes of social inquiry and policy-making", and Recommendation 97, on taking the lead "in encouraging and supporting research on crime and on the programs which seek to control crime" were influential in the decision to create the Department of the Solicitor General in 1966. Implementation of this Report's recommendations of the above-mentioned responsibilities was assigned to the new Department, along with the establishment of a library to satisfy Section (b) of Recommendation 95, on the need to establish a 'central clearing-house for information and research projects and their reported results'. |
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