Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Army knows the deadly capability of viruses for biological warfare. That may be why military prosecutors are now among the first lawmen in the country to see the AIDS virus as a weapon and its willful transmission as a crime. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., last week, Private First Class Adrian G. Morris Jr., a clerk-typist at the garrison headquarters, faced a court-martial on charges that include aggravated assault. Reason: Morris allegedly had sex with two soldiers, one male, one female, although he knew an Army screening had shown him to be an AIDS virus carrier...
...recent piece in the conservative magazine "Insight" proclaimed this the year of the crimebusters. District Attorneys in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia have all provided newspapers with headlines as they bring in one successful indictment after another. In the process, political corruption and organized crime have been death severe blows...
...Crime has long been a topic for movies, and in the late '70s D.A.'s even played a central role, but a very different one. Their job in movies such as Serpico and Prince of the City was to expose police corruption, all the while indicating just how inevitable that corruption was. The movies were not hard on cops so much as they were hard on the system. D.A.'s were portrayed as ambition-driven climbers, eager to use informants as stepping stones to more impressive jobs...
Whether the victim is Carolyn, found bound and apparently raped, or Rusty himself, accused of her murder, the victim is portrayed as an active participant in the circumstances leading to the crime. No clear line can be drawn; there are no pure victims, no pure criminals, just the purity of emotion drawn from shaken people...
Turow does not release the reader from the challenge proferred. This challenge is not to solve a crime, but to recognize that all people can play multiple roles--victim, aggressor, lover, thinker--without paradox...