Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insistently driven home to us in scene after scene, whether we're watching Otto shovel down his dinner from a can marked simply "Food," or watching Otto's punk friend Duke die after a shoot-out in a liquor store. "I know a life of crime led me to this fate. I blame society," he breathes in his final words...
Wilson, age 53, is one of the most prominent political scientists in the country. He has written prolifically on topics such as city politics, bureaucracy, law enforcement and crime--both in scholarly works and more popular publications like Commentary...
...link between the newly enforced policy and less crime has been established, but Flick said. "There hasn't been a major theft...
...stated that Rehnquist seemed to be saying that incarceration in often dangerous juvenile jails is comparable to parental supervision at home. Marshall was concerned about the breadth of the New York law, which allows a family-court judge to hold a child in preventive detention no matter what his crime or prior record...
Reagan Administration officials praised the high-court ruling. Said Alfred Regnery, director of juvenile programs for the Justice Department: "It recognizes that juvenile crime is serious business that needs to be dealt with seriously." But others were appalled. New York University Law Professor Martin Guggenheim, who handled Martin's Supreme Court appeal, denounced the decision as a "throwback to pre-20th century law," when children had few rights. Some critics thought it was especially unfortunate that the high court upheld the New York laws since Guggenheim had convinced two lower federal courts that it was being used...