Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more significantly, the case has brought to light issues about women's rights and their relation to our perception of rape as a crime...
...these reinforce the idea that the woman was the guilty one and other common myths about rape. We continue to see rape as a sexual crime, not as the crime of violence that it is. And our society, which has supposedly come so far is granting equality to women, still frowns on half its population for going into a bar alone...
...more addicts than the U.S. Nowhere has the scourge spread more swiftly than in Pakistan, where the number of heroin users has exploded from virtually none before 1980 to an estimated 200,000 by the end of last year. Malaysian police report that as much as 70% of all crime in the nation is now related to drugs. More than 4,500 addicts are in prison, and last year 1,000 soldiers were dismissed from the Malaysian army for drug involvement. In neighboring Thailand, long permissive in matters of vice, some leading authorities now favor stringent antidrug laws and compulsory...
...committing four brutal rapes in Spokane, Wash., in the late '70s and was suspected of having committed dozens more. The victims were housewives, career women and schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 51. Public officials suppressed news of the savage attacks; they wanted no hints of a crime wave in the Lilac City. But word got around, and stocks of Mace and handguns were soon depleted. The undermanned police force began to work overtime, picking up vagrants, drug addicts and recidivists, but with no success...
...suspect. His father, Gordon, was the soft-spoken managing editor of the local afternoon paper; his family, respected residents of the city's South Hill district. Extroverted, with a live-in girlfriend, flashy cars and mercantile schemes of fabulous marketing strategies, Coe fit no precinct's violent-crime profile. But his private life might have come from a chapter of Krafft-Ebing...