Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Street crime is a result of poverty. We should put our money into improving impoverished areas, not building more prisons. Punishing individuals who are already victims of an unequal system will not cure anything. Timothy J. Péwé Rock Island...
Conditions in our society brought Goetz to the edge. If anyone deserves to sit in jail, it is the politicians and judges who let crime get out of hand. Larry Zawilenski Chicago Seething South Africa...
...second incident took place last Saturday at Dillon Field House between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. An unidentified burglar broke into the University of Pennsylvania baseball team's locker room and stole over $750 worth of property. The baseball team was playing Harvard at the time of the crime...
There are some simple and practical alternatives to the current emphasis imprisonment. Only there convicted of violent crimes should even be considered for imprisonment. Others can be fined, sentenced on probation or terms of public service (as John Zaccaro recently was), or sent to halfway houses or part-time center which both monitor convicts and provide support and counseling to set them on the right course. Such options, provide a sufficient deferent to crime--in the form of fines and of relative loss of freedom--but they also give criminals an option to reform, Moreover, they place less...
While high levels of crime and prison overcrowding are particularly acute in some urban areas, they are problems throughout the country-Their solution requires a national effort towards creative and constructive responses to crime. Imprisonment is a simple, but it is also stupid While it may be necessary in some cases often it only hardens, criminals and provides incentives to neglect the social bases of crime. Instead of spending it on program that can give people the opportunity to become productive, law-abiding citizens...