Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later, he excoriated them for romanticizing "cynically anti-Semitic, mean-spirited, and simply incompetent" demagogues such as Louis Farrakhan while the underclass plunged into misery...
Wrong, say an increasingly vocal group of psychiatrists and criminologists. Many of the most depraved, coldhearted criminals, they suggest, suffer from a definable but little studied psychiatric disorder known as antisocial personality. "We blame crime on everything from bad parenting to violent video games," says University of Iowa psychiatrist Donald Black, whose book Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder was published early this year. "But medical journals don't cover ASP, and no one wants to look at it. It's baffling...
...says he overheard Adams telling the police that her "boyfriend" had shot her. "Her composure and ability to talk with us were amazing considering the way she was hurt," says police spokesman Keith Bridges. But could Carruth possibly have been capable of what some speculate was a crime of the coldest calculus--murder to avoid paying child support? Surely his weekly salary of $38,000 could cover that expense in addition to the $3,500 a month he was contributing to support a son in Sacramento, Calif...
...that devoted coterie, add Anthony Minghella. "Ripley is one of the most interesting characters in postwar fiction," Minghella says, and he ought to know. The writer-director has spent three years, ever since he finished his Oscar-winning epic The English Patient, puzzling out the emotional vectors of crime fiction's most seductive sociopath...
...TATTLETALE? Although the U.S. crime rate is declining, a new Justice Department study offers some major caveats: many crimes are never reported to any authority, and violent crimes against juveniles are reported less often than those against adults (44% vs. 55%). Sexual assaults and thefts are reported about as often for both groups. But in those three categories of crime, no more than 3 out of 10 offenses against juveniles get reported to police. Parents can help by encouraging kids to talk about any crime against them...