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Word: criminalled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIME IS the most visceral of issues: small wonder that the Right has almost exclusively coopted it. But hip-booted, lock-'em-up demagoguery has hardly stemmed a crime wave that keeps two out of every five citizens behind locked doors after dark. America, surfeited with crime, looks for a...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Crime is essentially, and perhaps necessarily, a youthful pursuit; more than three-quarters of those arrested in 1976 were under 25. Between 1960 and 1976, the 14-to-20-year-old, or potentially criminal, population grew remarkably, accounting for a good part of the criminal juggernaut. Moreover, the '60s saw...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Given the nature of criminality in America, what can be done to the criminal justice system to reduce crime? Not much, says Silberman. Custom and internal constraints keep crime down, not police, courts or prisons. Ultimately, we depend on our own willingness to obey the law. Yet certain reforms can...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Highly readable and hugely convincing, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice may be the most important book on the topic published this year. Silberman has seized the issue from the troglodytes and returned it to the liberal metier, made it possible to think not only clearly but humanely' about crime. Buy it...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Thinking About Crime | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

The men who do the work of piety and chanty in our churches ... the men who own and till their own farms ...the men who went to war ... and saved the nation's honor ... by the natural law of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Decline of the Parties | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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