Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the cover of Time to Bill Moyers's reports on CBS, the problems of inner-city ghettos have moved to the forefront of public attention in the last decade. The rates of crime, out-of-wedlock births, female-headed house-holds and joblessness in the inner cities rose drastically throughout the 1970s and 1980s, to the growing concern of politicians and public policy makers...
...last 20 years, there have been drastic increases in the rates of violent crime among Blacks, the number of female-headed Black households under the poverty line, out-of-wedlock births and teenage pregnancy. Recent longitudinal studies have shown that 60 percent of all those in poverty are long-term poor who will be in poverty for spells of eight or more years; female-headed households are disproportionately represented...
...attitudes towards the traditional family, but rather the effect of economic forces which make it hard for men to support families. In his recent Godkin lecture at Harvard, Wilson noted that the latest survey research shows that the truly disadvantaged actually share mainstream attitudes towards work, family and crime...
SCHEIM argues that in the first two years of his administration, Kennedy roused the ire of the Mob for authorizing his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president...
...crime- fighting hit America' s Most Wanted is just one of several shows that are blurring the line between fact and fiction...