Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Coalition for Jail Reform reports that, of the 500,000 women who spent time in jail during 1984, 58 percent had lived on less that $3000 a year and 92 percent had lived on less than $10,000 a year. Clearly, prostitution, drug use, mugging and petty crimes are associated with lack of economic opportunity and of social infrastructure. Without services like day-care, adequate public education, and food and nutrition programs there are many in our society for whom crime presents the only opportunity for self--advancement or even for survival...
...only do those who argue for more prisons fail to address the social context of crime, their solution establishes a dangerous incentive for continuing high levels of imprisonment. If we spend billions of dollars building new prisons, they will surety be used. The baby-boom generation is rapidly aging. It seems likely that--provided levels of poverty in this country do not continue to grow and thereby feed crime--the number of criminals in the U.S. should soon decline along this demographic trend. The more prisons we build, the greater will be the temptation to imprison people for minor offenses...
...light grey 1982 four-door Oldsmobile Cutlass was reported stolen from the fifth floor of the Everett Street garage. The crime allegedly took place between March 20 and April 16. Police have no suspects in the case...
...that would combine a search for socially approved outlets with some behavior modification to change people from T-minus tracks to T-plus ones. "This country, in order to survive this century and beyond, needs enormous levels of creativity," says Farley. "The interesting thing is that the destructive forces-crime, drinking and driving--arise from the same group who could be the most creative...
...pressed on Saigon, he commandeered a helicopter and personally flew it to the deck of a U.S. ship. Ky, 54, who has owned several successful liquor stores in California, is planning to join a partnership that will develop Vietnamese fast-food outlets. He has been accused of leading a crime ring involving former South Vietnamese army officers, but is not the target of any investigations. "I'm not a Mafia chieftain," he insists. "I'm a poor man." Ky's view on U.S. conduct of the war: "With a 'no win' policy, you have no chance of winning...