Word: crime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the doubts, Presiding Judge Harold Naughton remains outspokenly convinced that the boy is guilty and deserves the gas chamber. "There was no defense at all," he says, and the death penalty "has been a real deterrent to teen-age crime...
...Hennessy, authorized biographer of Queen Mary, grandson and biographer (Verandah) of a British colonial governor, is not a formal historian; his book is a stark, sometimes emotional act of moral scrutiny. From brutal start to finish, he documents the slave traders' operation as a "vast complex of international crime." Captains' letters, half-literate journals, freed slaves' memoirs-all the available primary sources are meticulously assayed, not so much to show how the slave trade operated as to try to explain...
...they admitted, but the black was different: his mental and neurological inferiority did not permit him to "suffer as a white man would have." Slavery, in the words of Boswell, was a "happier state of life" for "African Savages." To abolish it, he protested, would be the real crime-"robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects," meaning the slaveowners...
Despite its reluctance to uphold censorship, the Supreme Court has more than once hinted that laws carefully and narrowly aimed at creating a ban for juveniles might well be constitutional. Taking the hint, New York State passed a statute in 1965 making it a crime to sell to anyone under 17 any material that presents a salacious view of "nudity, sexual conduct or sado-masochistic abuse." Similarly inspired, Dallas enacted a municipal ordinance empowering a nine-man board to label films as "not suitable for young persons"; movie theaters can be fined $200 for admitting anyone under 16 to such...
...Many parents, shuddering at the heavy dose of violence on the screen, foresee a generation of juvenile delinquents. TV heroes, they complain, do not merely administer justice, they annihilate their enemies with cheerful abandon. The bulk of research, however, concludes that TV by itself is rarely a cause of crime or aggression; it can be a contributing factor, but only in the case of a child who is already disturbed...