Word: criminologist
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...Your excellent article on guns referred to my study of homicide in Philadelphia in 1958 and quoted a statement the National Rifle Association has often used to suggest that I, as a criminologist, favor their position about gun legislation. You further indicated that "Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...reduce regimentation, says Criminologist Daniel Gia-ser, no prison should house more than 100 inmates, v 4,000 in many of today's bastilles; small groups of tractable prisoners could live in Y.M.C.A.-type hotels or apartments...
...premiss of The Spirit is pleasently aboard. The hero is (quoting Eisner) "really Denny Cok, a young criminologist presumed dead by the public but who continues to assist sosociety behind the maskk of The Spirit. That he operates out of Wildwood Cemetery where he is supposed to be buried, is known only to commissioner Dolan, and his daughter Ellen...
Rare Praise. Such praise has not been earned overnight. Berkeley's "finest" have been building their reputation ever since the force was founded. In 1905, August Vollmer, a self-educated criminologist, noticed that the then 130-year-old city had no police force and decided to start one. His name is still legend in law enforcement circles for the methods that he pioneered. His stiff rules of conduct are now standardized as a code of ethics for police across the country. His department was the first to use blood, fiber and soil analysis in detection (1907); the first...
...over the years, concluded that "there is no clear evidence of any influence of the death penalty on the homicide rates." In retorting to the arguments of law-enforcement authorities that the death penalty is needed to keep criminals from killing policemen, abolitionists point to the University of Pennsylvania Criminologist Thorsten Sellin's massive study of fatal attacks on policemen in some 260 Northern U.S. cities. By Sellin's mathematics, the rate of such attacks was slightly higher in death-penalty states than in abolition states...