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[CITE: 42USC14193]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 136--VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 
SUBCHAPTER XII--PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT ON VIOLENCE AND NATIONAL COMMISSION 
                     ON CRIME PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
Sec. 14193. Purposes

    The purposes of the Commission are as follows:
        (1) To develop a comprehensive proposal for preventing and 
    controlling crime and violence in the United States, including cost 
    estimates for implementing any recommendations made by the 
    Commission.
        (2) To bring attention to successful models and programs in 
    crime prevention and crime control.
        (3) To reach out beyond the traditional criminal justice 
    community for ideas for controlling and preventing crime.
        (4) To recommend improvements in the coordination of local, 
    State, Federal, and international crime control and prevention 
    efforts, including efforts relating to crime near international 
    borders.
        (5) To make a comprehensive study of the economic and social 
    factors leading to or contributing to crime and violence, including 
    the causes of illicit drug use and other substance abuse, and to 
    develop specific proposals for legislative and administrative 
    actions to reduce crime and violence and the factors that contribute 
    to it.
        (6) To recommend means of utilizing criminal justice resources 
    as effectively as possible, including targeting finite correctional 
    facility space to the most serious and violent offenders, and 
    considering increased use of intermediate sanctions for offenders 
    who can be dealt with adequately by such means.
        (7) To examine distinctive crime problems and the impact of 
    crime on members of minority groups, Indians living on reservations, 
    and other groups defined by race, ethnicity, religion, age, 
    disability, or other characteristics, and to recommend specific 
    responses to the distinctive crime problems of such groups.
        (8) To examine the problem of sexual assaults, domestic 
    violence, and other criminal and unlawful acts that particularly 
    affect women, and to recommend Federal, State, and local strategies 
    for more effectively preventing and punishing such crimes and acts.
        (9) To examine the treatment of victims in Federal, State, and 
    local criminal justice systems, and to develop recommendations to 
    enhance and protect the rights of victims.
        (10) To examine the ability of Federal, State, and local 
    criminal justice systems to administer criminal law and criminal 
    sanctions impartially without discrimination on the basis of race, 
    ethnicity, religion, gender, or other legally proscribed grounds, 
    and to make recommendations for correcting any deficiencies in the 
    impartial administration of justice on these grounds.
        (11) To examine the nature, scope, causes, and complexities of 
    violence in schools and to recommend a comprehensive response to 
    that problem.

(Pub. L. 103-322, title XXVII, Sec. 270003, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2091.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 14194 of this title.
