Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children. But short of sending hillbillies back to the hills-and city officials are not even sure how many there are-authorities see no swift or clear-cut solution to the problem...
...almost complete reversal of what is usually considered as morality. For him, the absolute goal of human existence is not the attainment of good, but of evil. This state cannot be reached by mere effort--it must, like Calvinistic grace, be conferred from without. Thus he represents Green Eyes' crime as not rationally motivated...
...French prison inmates: one, Green Eyes, a condemned murderer; the second, Maurice, a young boy who is, apparently, a born criminal; and the third, Lefranc, a man who has only skirted the edges of the criminal world. Green Eyes dominates the triangle by virtue of the power which his crime confers on him. Each of the others tries to gain something of that power for himself by excluding the other from the murderer's regard...
Your Feb. 11 article on Negro crime is a timely one, as have been others within the past year. However, it should be made clear that this is one of the self-sown seeds of American destruction. Negro crime will diminish in proportion to the amount of participation afforded the Negro in American affairs. This Negro crime is the price America pays for her racial doubletalk and social hypocrisy...
...turned loose on society and told to go and sin no more. Needless to say they are soon back in jail as repeaters. I have spent a major portion of my life in the South, and I find that nine times out of ten, if a Negro commits a crime against another Negro he gets the lightest sentence possible. However, it he commits a crime against a white person he gets the book thrown at him. Why should the offender not be punished as severely for wronging one of his brothers as he is for injury to a member...