Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Training schools were originally designed to take youthful offenders out of the city and place them in a more relaxed country setting. However, they offered little or no recreational opportunities and, as a spokesman for Governor Dukakis said, "The most a kid learned there was how to be a better...
Says University of Southern California Psychiatrist Frederick Hacker: "The media claim to be holding a mirror up to society. But the recent rash of hostage crimes indicates that the media have actually been promoting criminal behavior." Crime reporting has become more pervasive, and viewers appear to like that. As Chicago...
Rub Out. Last fall, Chin testified in a case involving a Stratford, Conn., policeman named Joseph Berke, who was convicted of having bugged the town hall, ostensibly to aid himself in the state examination for promotion. The bugs were discovered by electricians, and at the trial Chin testified that he...
Birth Control. The government also set out to abolish the illegal "parallel economy" that had flourished alongside the official one. About 1,300 smugglers were thrown in jail. Mrs. Gandhi, on the other hand, declared an amnesty from criminal charges for people who had failed to pay sufficient taxes-often...
Gaffney said "It vindicated the district attorney's office and the criminal justice system because up till then she denied she had taken part in the bank robbery. The media criticized us for prosecuting Susan Saxe by saying we were just prosecuting her because she was an anti-war activist...