Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Does violence beget violence? Can one lurid crime flashed instantly across TV screens and explored in the pages of newspapers and magazines inspire other crimes? Those were questions for policemen, psychiatrists and journalists to ponder last week as a rash of savagery -a kind of season of rage-erupted across the U.S. Items...
Says University of Southern California Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker: "The media claim to be holding a mirror up to society. But the recent rash of hostage crimes indicates that the media have actually been promoting criminal behavior." Crime reporting has become more pervasive, and viewers appear to like that. As Chicago Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn observes sadly: "All you need to do today to see violent crime is to turn on a switch." But he absolves the press-"It merely reflects what is happening on the streets"-and blames instead the growing assertiveness of the individual. "We are moving from a time...
...with fewer children, families will have more discretionary income to spend on the pursuit of pleasure-and for better health care and education. Air, water and noise pollution should be reduced. With a drop in the number of youths in their teens and twenties, the segment responsible for most crime today, the cities may be safer...
...years for fratricide. That is just the beginning. There are Farragut's neighbors in cell block F, with names like Chicken No. 2, Bumpo, the Stone, the Cuckold, Ransome and Tennis, who on the outside was Lloyd Haversham Jr., two-time winner of the Spartanburg doubles. His crime was "a clerical error in banking...
...prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse the thoughts of men's hearts because of the grief with which we are acquainted." Another sententious observation would be equally true: crime's victims are no strangers to grief...