Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly a match made in heaven. Still, when the pair broke up shortly before the wedding day, Elton was benefit. "I tried to commit suicide. It was a very Woody Allen type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open." He has remained "wary of up-front women getting to know me." There have been very few women in the Elton entourage since...
...which is largely under state and local jurisdiction. The main thrust of Ford's proposals was to ensure that serious offenders go to prison. In this he seemed to reflect a growing consensus of both liberals and conservatives. Ford called for mandatory jailing, with certain exceptions, of persons who commit violent offenses under federal jurisdiction. He also urged a reform of the chaotic system of federal laws. State legislatures should follow suit, he suggested, and he asked Congress to authorize $6.8 billion for Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grants to local and state governments between now and 1981. In several states...
...children. A New York study of nine juvenile murderers, including a girl who had chopped a victim to pieces with a machete knife, showed that all nine had been routinely beaten by their parents. Other youths who commit and later talk about the most heinous crimes with peculiar indifference "don't seem to realize they are putting a knife into another human being," says Willard Gaylin, professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University. Gaylin believes this insensibility stems from a lack of identity with anyone else or with the community. "These kids have been so brutalized that there...
...Huntsville penitentiary, David Stonestreet, 45, agrees that prison can become a habit. "A lot of inmates in this system have grown up through it since the time they were juveniles. These are their friends-the only people they know. Back on the streets they are nobody, so they commit a crime and come back here because this is their home. I can come in here and live and not be hassled. All I've got to do is my job and that's it. I don't have to buy food-nothing. There are inmates in here...
...that such encounters are rare. "Treatment is of no use to most people in today's prisons. The answer is almost to leave the prisons alone-almost benign neglect," he says. "Then divert massive resources to this society's disadvantaged children, the ones who are going to commit tomorrow's crime...