Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alleys," the Degraw Street Gang, the Sackett Street gang, "The Harrisons," the Bush Street Gang, and 21 other boys' gangs were the subjects of a report of the New York State Crime Commission which told, last week, of its findings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. The Red Hook section was chosen because the percentage of juvenile delinquencies is five times as high there as in any other Brooklyn territory...
...itself to the Vagabond as he was musing on the meaning of those two crisp and noble words Sociological Jurisprudence--that the "signs wit hindications" are pointing to the need for speedy changes in American law. Much might be said of the sociological aspects of the recent much bruited crime wave--the Vagabond is not going to say anything about them. Much more might be said about the notorious post-war lapse in morality, one of whose many peculiarities evidences itself in the writing of indecent literature and bad verses--but the Holy See has recently come out with...
...legislatures throughout the U. S. in prosperous states of a prosperous nation, men have sought for months new ways to defeat crime, have argued the old question: Will crime decrease as punishment becomes more sure, more certain...
Last fortnight in the New York State Legislature, the Baumes Crime Commission sought to sharpen the teeth of existing Baumes laws with 84 new recommendations, to make parole and bail harder, conviction easier, take deadly weapons from the hands of criminals. At the same time 38 bills to make the recommendations effective were introduced in the legislature...
...name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...