Jerome Skolnick

Jerome Skolnick had argued that clearance rates demonstrate the reality of the criminal justice conflict model by encouraging police to focus on appearing to do their job, rather than on actually doing their job. This is a comparable argument to that regarding standardized testing, and "teaching to the test". Skolnick noted one incident where police coerced a man to confess to over 400 burglaries so that they could have a high rate of crime solving (clearance).

His awards include Carnegie, Guggenheim and National Science Foundation fellowships as well as prizes for distinguished scholarship from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Western Society of Criminology.{{cite web | url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/jerome-skolnick/#tab_profile | title=Jerome Skolnick }} Jerry received widespread recognition in the United States and abroad throughout his long career.

Skolnick died on February 22, 2024, in New York City, New York, at the age of 92.{{Cite web |title=Jerome Skolnick Obituary - New York, NY |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/jerome-skolnick-11682605 |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Dignity Memorial |language=en-us}}

• "The law often, but not always, supports police deception."{{Citation | last =Skolnick | first =J. H. | title =Deception by Police | journal =Criminal Justice Ethics | volume =1 | issue =2 | date =Summer–Fall 1982 | pages =40–54 | doi =10.1080/0731129X.1982.9991705 | url =http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/cje/html/sample1.html | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/19980209181933/http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/cje/html/sample1.html | url-status =dead | archive-date =February 9, 1998 }}
• "Courtroom lying is justified within the police culture by the same sort of necessity rationale that courts have permitted police to employ at the investigative stage: The end justifies the means."

Most of his writings deal with criminal justice.

• {{cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.| title =Justice without trial: law enforcement in democratic society | publisher = Wiley| year =1966 | location =New York| isbn =978-0-471-79541-4| url =https://archive.org/details/justicewithouttr0000skol| url-access =registration| id =OCLC: 1175611 }}
• {{cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.|author2=E. Currie | title =Crisis in American Institutions | publisher =Little, Brown | year =1970 | location =Boston | id =OCLC: 76362 }}
• {{cite book | last =Skolnick | first =J. H. | title =House of cards: the legalization and control of casino gambling | publisher =Little, Brown | year =1978 | location =Boston | url =https://archive.org/details/houseofcardslega0000skol | id =OCLC: 4004124 | isbn =0-316-79699-9 | url-access =registration }}
• {{cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J.H. |author2=Kaplan J. |author-link2=John Kaplan (law professor) | title =Criminal Justice; a Casebook| publisher =Foundation Press | year =1982 | location =Mineola, N.Y. | id = OCLC: 7977551 | isbn =0-88277-053-5 }}
• {{cite book | last =Skolnick| first =J. H.|author2=Bayley, D. H. | title =new blue line: police innovation in six American cities | publisher =Free Press | year =1986 | location =New York | id = OCLC: 12840114| isbn =0-02-929310-3 }}
• {{cite book | last =Skolnick | first =J. H. | author2 =J. J. Fyfe | author-link2 =James Fyfe | title =Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force | publisher =Free Press | year =1993 | location =New York | url =https://archive.org/details/abovelawpoliceex00skol | id =OCLC: 27011930 | isbn =0-02-929312-X | url-access =registration }}

While attending Yale Law School, Jerome married Arlene Silberstein[https://books.google.com/books?id=sRQl0sm-ZxwC&dq=Arlene+Silberstein+Skolnick&pg=PR13 Skolnick 1991][http://alumniandfriends.org/content/uploads/newsletter-summer_2011.pdf LaGuardia 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518082340/http://alumniandfriends.org/content/uploads/newsletter-summer_2011.pdf |date=2015-05-18 }} in New Haven, Connecticut.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UxmGEE2vMzQC&dq=skolnick%2C+marriage%2C+Jerome%2C+Arlene&pg=PA126 Glassner 2003] Both Jerome and Arlene were Reform Jewish.[http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-12-19/music/testament-s-alex-skolnick-went-from-geek-to-guitar-god/full/ Village Voice 2012][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK63zYI7_nQ Youtube 2013] They had two sons who were born in Berkeley, Alex Skolnick, lead guitarist for the thrash metal band Testament and founder of the jazz band Alex Skolnick trio,{{Cite web | title=Alex Skolnick Trio Discography at Discogs | url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/2322426-Alex-Skolnick-Trio | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204071639/http://www.discogs.com:80/artist/2322426-Alex-Skolnick-Trio | access-date=2024-12-27 | archive-date=2015-02-04}} and Michael Skolnick.

• {{cite web|title=Jerome H. Skolnick: Police deception and brutality |work=Historical context within Jerome H. ... |publisher=Florida State University |url=http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/skolnick.htm |access-date=2007-09-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080201235555/http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/skolnick.htm |archive-date=2008-02-01 }}

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