ABSTRACT
Reprinted by permission of Transaction, Inc. from Trans-action 5 (July-August 1968): 10-19. Copyright © 1968 by Transaction, Inc. Albert J. Reiss, Jr., is Professor of Sociology at Yale University and has taught at the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Chicago. He has made important contributions to the fields of social stratification, urban sociology, and deviant behavior. Most recently he has directed intensive research on the police and on problems of crime in urban communities.
