Word: criming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioner Chisolm's remarks in TIME, Aug. 26, regarding CELLS and CRIME, in U. S. are pertinent and logical. Rigid laws are not needed and fail their purpose. Too many laws today make "criminals" out of unoffensive citizens. Under our present system the most law-abiding citizen breaks on the average of 20 laws, and ordinances, each and every 24 hours. Over-crowding of prisons in U. S. is due to large extent to persons being made "criminals" by law, without possessing criminal intents and propensities...
Administration of so called "criminal" justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
Thru TIME let us hear from others on the vital subject of CRIME...
...apartment with him in the hope of finding her to be a criminal. The mistress of the fiance of his murdered ward, he installs elsewhere with a housekeeper so that while apparently furthering her idealistic efforts to "go straight," he can investigate her also for clues to a crime which he suspects her of having committed. Al Draper decoys both of them eventually to his roulette and poker establishment from which, by means of a raid, they are hustled to the office of the district attorney. Here, in a prolonged questioning Mazie abuses the interlocutor and the assembled company with...
...duties of the office of President of Nicaragua require me to write for publication some statements that are a little severe. ... It seems to me that a crime was committed against this country when ... a nation friendly to Nicaragua was offended in the greatest pride that it can have, the honor of its army and of its marines. I refer to the United States of America...