Word: crimeeds
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Although he calls television "the enemy of intellectual thought." Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson will begin work this fall on a 26-episode T. V. series devoted to his specialty--crime and criminal behavior...
Wilson and others connected with the project said potential topics include capital punishment, child abuse, drunk driving and careers in law enforcement. The hope is to examine crime as it relates to people's everyday lives...
...country's foremost experts on criminal justice, having written extensively on the subject in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and several books. Although he disawows the label, he is often referred to as a neoconservative by observers, who cite so-called hard-line positions on means of deterring crime...
...campaign issues, Ferraro said that as an assistant district attorney in New York, "I put my share of criminals behind bars ... If you break the law, you must pay for your crime." She charged that because of the Reagan Administration, "the rules are rigged" against too many Americans. "It isn't right that a woman should get paid 59? on the dollar for the same work as a man." Turning to cuts in student-loan funds, Ferraro bluntly addressed Reagan: "You fit the classic definition of a cynic; you know the price of everything, but the value of nothing...
DIED. Raymond Patriarca, 76, undisputed godfather of organized crime in New England for a quarter of a century; of a heart attack; in Providence. Despite more than 40 arrests and 18 convictions for crimes including bootlegging, armed robbery, auto theft, and breaking and entering, the Massachusetts-born Patriarca always denied that he was anything but a legitimate vending-machine distributor. Indicted in 1980 and 1981 on charges of labor racketeering and ordering the execution of two underworld figures, he never stood trial because of poor health...