Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sanguine about Carter's handling of the economy. Only 20% feel he has lived up to his campaign promises to curb rising prices; 31% do not. Inflation is mentioned as the main concern by 42% of those polled. Unemployment ranks next at 28%, energy shortages and crime at 15%, taxes at 12% and foreign affairs...
Under this approach, a salesman in an adult bookstore could be prosecuted as an active participant in the crime of sexually exploiting the children pictured in the store's magazines. New York Lawyer Charles Rembar, who successfully defended Lady Chatterley's Lover and Fanny Hill against obscenity charges, thinks the seller of child porn is a suitable target: "It is totally unrealistic to say that the people who sell these magazines and films are not involved in the act themselves." Yet other lawyers consider a broad child-abuse law a form of backdoor censorship. Says Ira Glasser...
Goldwater aside, there is no question that crime can be traced to the highest levels in the state. Bolles' killer, a small-time hoodlum named John Adamson, turned state's evidence to avoid first-degree murder charges. He implicated a land developer and a plumber in the plot and said that the man who ordered the murder was Kemper Marley, 70, a cattle and liquor baron who looks as if he just stepped out of the pages of Zane Grey. Crusty and brusque, Marley has a reputation for getting what he wants any way he wants...
...violence on television, observed Purdue Psychologist Robert A. Baron, not only gives "unstable people the idea of doing the same, but also teaches them exactly how to go about it -it cuts out trial and error." Said veteran Lawman Michael Spiotto, Chicago's first deputy police superintendent: "Overpublicizing crime tends to bring the kooks out of the woodwork...
...Gorski, chief of University police, offers the University an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the course it expects to follow in dealing with the Harvard Patrolmen's Association. Gorski, who is leaving Harvard after thoroughly revamping the University police, merits high praise for his success in lowering Harvard's crime rate--yet his notable failure to maintain good relations with his employees tarnishes this otherwise enviable record. Now that he is departing, the University should reconsider the wisdom of such a policy, and make the effort to resolve this inner conflict that it has previously avoided...