Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bundy was never what a serial killer was supposed to be like. He didn't hear voices or look like a violent sociopath on the Charles Manson model. He wasn't raised in the streets, learning crime as a way of life. The Bundy case throws sociology texts out the window; Ted Bundy was a nice...
...date or the kind of guy that buttoned-down law firms prefer to hire. In college, Bundy was a B-plus student who reportedly loved children and poetry. Before he began his killing spree in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, Bundy, then the assistant director of the Seattle Crime Prevention Commission, was a rising star in Seattle Republican Party politics...
...sport (target shooting, for instance). But recent surveys show nearly 50% mentioning self-protection as their primary reason. Says Mark Warr, a sociologist at the University of Texas: "It's a giving up on the system. People have lost confidence in the ability of local government to control crime. There is a growing feeling that 'We must do it ourselves...
...reason is that women feel especially vulnerable to violent crime -- often with good reason. Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist, was attacked several years ago at the University of Illinois Medical Center by two men, one carrying a gun, she fought off a rape but was severely beaten. Then, on a Saturday morning last year, she was attacked again as she approached her car parked outside a neighborhood church. "After that I said, 'That's it, no more.' I made the decision then and there that my protection was in my own hands." Kolen bought a gun and is going...
...think it is oversold. Police officers tend to equate guns with drugs; so long as the crack trade is not significantly reduced, they think, the inner-city shoot-outs will rage on and contribute to the impression (not entirely justified in light of slight overall declines in the national crime rate) of a rising tide of violent crime that has driven so many peaceful citizens to arm themselves. On the practical side, writing a definition of paramilitary weapons that would distinguish them from some types of semiautomatic hunting rifles is no easy...