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...line may be Utopian. But believing that more cops and tougher judges will stop crime is wishful as well, says Charles Silberman in his important new book, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.* Silberman's searching study faces some uncomfortable truths?like the fact that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime???and debunks a host of myths along...
More serious analysts point to the fact that, historically, rapid economic expansion and ethnically mixed populations have produced crime???hence the waves of violence in the U.S. in the middle and late 19th century. Another factor that historically has been accompanied by crime, points out Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, is individual freedom. Some experts today argue that juvenile crime is spreading because everyone is pushing what he considers his "rights" to the utmost limits. Standards are lowered and blurred: any behavior, however deviant, finds its instant defenders. The traditional and constraining institutions of family, church and school have lost much...
...unrest within the Mafia?and the effect this has on all levels of organized crime???reaches far beyond the sidewalks and back alleys of New York. In Chicago, young toughs who are fighting over lucrative jobs in the organization have produced the worst intramural bloodbath since Al Capone seized control in the 1920s. The toll since December 1973: 21 dead. Observes Peter Vaira, chief of the Justice Department's anti-Mafia strike force in the city: "The younger faction wants more power and a bigger piece of the action. There will be more killings." At the same time, mobsters from...
...operate here unless we're in." He has ranged north to San Francisco, working with Teamsters on shakedowns of employers. But Rizzitello may soon be taken off the streets for up to three years. He is scheduled to be sentenced May 23 for a penny-ante crime???fraudulently collecting $21,780 on a false insurance claim that his business-supply firm had been burglarized...
...riots, the nation's 400,000 policemen are armed with more lethal weapons than some of history's major wars required plus Mace and Pepper Fog, undercover agents, computers and helicopters. The best cops have also learned new techniques for cooling crowds instead of using those weapons. Yet street crime???the worst problem?is so rampant that police are fast becoming the nation's most frustrated minority. In fact, roughly half of all serious crimes are never reported, often because numbed victims expect no help from overburdened police. Between 70% and 80% of police effort is spent not on crime...