Word: commiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminals that normal, everyday transactions-like crossing the street or selling goods-have become fraught with fear," says Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who wrote this week's cover story on the growing American scourge of juvenile crime. The article profiles a new breed of delinquent-youngsters who casually commit murder, rape, assault and arson. It discusses the reasons for their delinquency, and describes the floundering juvenile justice system that must deal with them...
More than half of all serious crimes* in the U.S. are committed by youths aged ten to 17. Since 1960, juvenile crime has risen twice as fast as that of adults. In San Francisco, kids of 17 and under are arrested for 57% of all felonies against people (homicide, assault, etc.) and 66% of all crimes against property. Last year in Chicago, one-third of all murders were committed by people aged 20 or younger, a 29% jump over 1975. In Detroit, youths commit so much crime that city officials were forced to impose a 10 p.m. curfew last year...
...disbelief that I learned about the report on human sexuality [June 13]. I find it incredible that some Catholic theologians are giving their approval to extramarital sex and teaching that such relationships can be "creative and integrative for all involved." Who repealed God's commandment: Thou shall not commit adultery...
Prime Minister John Vorster expresses this view with unshakable conviction. Showing an intransigence that recalls Golda Meir without the humor, he insists that his policy is right and the rest of the world is wrong. "What do you want us to do?" and "We will not commit suicide" are phrases that keep echoing Golda. Blacks will have the vote in their homelands, he insists, but not in white South Africa. "The blacks came here to get jobs, which they need. That is enough. We don't also have to give them political rights. They understand this when they accept...
Getting into America illegally is one of the easiest crimes to commit and one of the least punished. Says Chapman: "An illegal alien who is caught has to be one of the unluckiest fellas in the world." Most of the illegal immigrants who arrive in the U.S. cross the 2,000-mile-long Mexican border, where a small number of federal agents are overwhelmed by the size of their job (see box page 30). Professional smuggling rings provide guides for a fee ranging from $100 to $1,000, forged papers from $300 to $1,200, depending on the quality...