Word: crime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luckless person who complains that "everything happens to me" may be stating a scientific fact. Many victims of crime practically ask for it: they stand in the path of the crime and "tempt" the criminal. So said a noted criminologist last week. This theory is not new to science, but it was advanced with new force by Dr. Hans von Hentig in a new book, The Criminal and His Victim (Yale University Press...
...Criminal Mind. In Camden, N.J., police were hunting the burglar who jumped from Miss Helen Larkin's window, then rushed back into the house and retrieved his shoes. In Louisville, police nabbed two men as they returned to the scene of the crime to recover their tools...
...Departing for a European vacation, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said: "Anyone who commits a crime while I'm away is an ill-mannered person...
...nine years, Rule 904-the local judges' answer to trial by headline-has gagged Baltimore papers in their coverage of crime. It forbids news of confessions, bars comments by anyone bearing on a trial, prohibits pictures of the accused without his consent...
...reviewers, and will probably escape most of his readers. He seems to be saying that Scobie-though, God knows, no saint-is in reality a very likable, perhaps admirable, and probably forgivable sinner. And the implicit sympathy with which Author Greene watches his "hero" plod doggedly from one crime to the inevitable next-adultery, sacrilege, murder and suicide-seems to show that Greene is on Scobie's side. He is certainly in Scobie's corner (he is his handler); but he is not necessarily on Scobie's side (he is not his manager...