Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, hymned in the pages of esoteric French film magazines, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice with this tough crime film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who goes to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many forms of protest whose aim is to break the law and confront the established order. In citing...
...goad losers into earning the self-respect that they lack in the first place. Menninger would abolish today's moralistic "punishment" for the few, which simply deepens their hostility. Along with far swifter police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences, the ultimate length to be decided by skilled penologists according...
Certainly, Americans do often seem to encourage crime. They refuse to pay higher taxes for better police and adequate courts. They decry rising crime, but consider what they tolerate: roughly half of all crimes are never reported; of those reported, 11% are never solved. As for "correctional" prisons, 30% of all released inmates (and 75% in some areas) are reimprisoned within five years, usually for worse crimes. Why such incredible inefficiency...
Helpless and Hopeless. A likely answer is that people are just plain scared of crime, and so, as a result, they either ignore it or else demand harsh retaliation. In turn, the U.S. penal system punishes criminal symptoms rather than cures criminal causes. The product is more crime...