Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without the reform rule, the crime against Alice might never have been prosecuted. And if it had come to trial, says Susan Rohr, an adviser at the three-year-old Detroit Rape Counseling Center, "the defense attorney would have done everything to keep the jury from thinking about the facts of the crime. Instead, he would have tried to make it seem that the victim was in the habit of making quick acquaintances with strange men in a bar late at night...
Changes in rape laws have been pressed by women's rights groups, who argue that rape victims have too often been "raped a second time" by the criminal justice system, and by law reformers, who want rape treated rationally, like any other violent crime. One step has been to drop the word rape. Many of the new statutes speak in terms of sexual assault, sexual battery or criminal sexual conduct and carefully define...
Casting about for an expert to lecture its investigators on white-collar crime. California's department of justice hired a man with firsthand experience: Joseph L. Bentz Jr., who had avoided prosecution for his part in embezzling millions by agreeing to testify for the authorities. By all accounts, Bentz, 44, was an excellent instructor. "He was fascinating," recalls Roy G. Leyrer, who ran the program. "He was very willing to discuss all aspects of the con game. I wish I could get a few more guys like him. Policemen and other investigators came from all over the country...
Nader criticized the business school curriculum for ignoring corporate abuses of power. "I doubt that the current corporate crime epidemic is a burning issue at this business school," he said, adding that business professors often ignore consumer-related problems...
...Bible openly are currently good in Poland, erratic in East Germany, difficult in Czechoslovakia and Hungary (where the purchaser's name may go directly into a government dossier), extremely difficult in Rumania, virtually impossible in the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. Buying a Bible is an out-and-out crime in Albania. Besides Bibles, the smugglers provide essential religious literature otherwise unobtainable...