Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOGAN'S BLUFF. Director Don Siegal, a favorite of French cinema fans, proves that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. This is a tough crime film about an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who goes to New York to extradite a prisoner...
CORSICAN brigands, Algerian footpads, Parisian safecrackers and other prowlers in the French underworld learned last week what they were missing by practicing crime at home 'instead of abroad in the U.S. A recent issue of Figaro printed excerpts from My American Prisons, a new book by Parisian Jacques Angelvin, 54, who describes his five years of confinement in half a dozen U.S. jails. Responding to the author's Michelinesque approach, Figaro also displayed appropriate symbols to indicate the comfort, cuisine, amenities, amusements and other facilities offered by American jails...
...CRIME OF PUNISHMENT by Karl Menninger, M.D. 305 pages. Viking...
...though the issues are often misunderstood. Facts and figures can be misleading.* Even more misleading can be the emotions involved. So argues Psychiatrist Karl Menninger in this libertarian critique of American criminal justice. Menninger advances some notions that will anger many laymen. As Menninger sees it, Americans actually like crime: "We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. Criminals represent our alter egos, our 'bad' selves-rejected and projected. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do and, like scapegoats of old, they bear the burdens...
When it comes to the interrogation of criminal suspects, Friendly argues for a more narrow interpretation of the Fifth than the court gave in Miranda v. Arizona (TIME, June 24, 1966). At the very least, Friendly believes, a policeman investigating a crime should be able to question a suspect on the street before taking him into custody. Yet he fears that the court may eventually bar even this. Nor is it asking too much, says Friendly, to require a man brought to the station house to identify himself. Agreeing with the goal of Miranda-to make certain that the rights...