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Word: crimeds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four secured facilities for juveniles now exist in Massachusetts: at Roslindale, Chelmsford, Worcester, and Westfield. When they fill, surplus juvenile delinquents must either be diverted into community-based programs or into an adult penitentiary, depending on the seriousness of their crime...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

These "quirky cases" in which some heinous crime has been committed comprise only about 5 to 10 per cent of all juvenile offenses in Massachusetts. For these juvenile offenders--deemed dangerous to themselves and to others by the courts--the governor has included a clause in his proposed budget for fiscal year 1978 that would allocate $1.7 million toward the implementation of 50 new secured slots. The state hopes to be able to utilize and expand upon existing secured facilities, rather than constructing new ones...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Substituting minibikes for hot cars | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

...CRIME DOESN'T PAY. At least that's what the post-Watergate flurry of indictments, CIA bugs hidden in chandeliers, and James Q. Wilson seem to be saying. And everyone involved in the Patty Hearst case except F. Lee Bailey would agree. But an alternative tradition of the likeable, triumphant crook has evolved in Hollywood, and Ted Kotcheff's Fun with Dick and Jane is an heir to this genre...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: See Spot Steal | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...first out of necessity and then as a sexual turn-on. They debut as criminals by robbing a drugstore; then they progress to the telephone company and Dick's old firm. Dick eventually outsmarts his ex-boss Charley (Ed McMahon) to wind up as president of the corporation. If crime is a game, then their winning number keeps coming up on the roulette wheel...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: See Spot Steal | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

Indeed, the only people who deserve to stand on an unemployment line are the producers of Fun with Dick and Jane. The true criminals of the film, they probably discovered this script sitting at the bottom of the television movie rejects pile. But, after all, Kotcheff proves that crime pays, as each person in his audience leaves the theatre three dollars and fifty cents poorer...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: See Spot Steal | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

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