Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty deters crime." According to this argument, criminals who would otherwise commit atrocious murders would refrain from such action out of fear of being put to death by the government. The electric chair, according to many death penalty proponents, will cast a long shadow of intimidation upon potential murderers...
...very little evidence exists that capital punishment actually deters murder. While deterrence is always difficult to demonstrate, little research has indicated any diminution in crime due to the institution of the death penalty. While the gas chamber may strike fear in the hearts of many, hardened criminals will carry out murders regardless of the draconian nature of the punishment...
...First Amendment traditionally protects even the most objectionable writing, a federal court of appeals in Richmond, Va., earlier this month allowed the suit to go forward. In a groundbreaking ruling, the court said the Constitution does not protect books that aid and abet in the commission of a crime...
...expected to hear far more about protecting children at a panel discussion called "Sex, Commercialism and the Disappearance of Childhood." Or at the very least, I expected to hear about whether children really needed protection. A study of "Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler" by Judith A. Reisman, in contrast to the ARCO panel, sets out the relevant facts. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the study of the three magazines from December 1953 to December 1984, located 6,004 images of children. Overall, "child-depiction increased nearly 2,600 percent...
...door policy is crucial if you come from the assumption that Harvard students are the perpetrators of crime and safety concerns--which isn't conclusive," Danganan said...