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Buckley attacked the national gun lobby, because he said the various anti-gun-control groups in this country have been unable to find one criminologist in the world who supported their position...
...have not heard an intellectually respectable defense of criminal rehabilitation James Q. Wilson says flatly. According to Criminologist Hans Mattick, "The prisons have become largely drama schools which force people to act as if they were rehabilitated along stereotyped conventions." Concludes Columbia Sociologist Robert Martinson after studying hundreds of programs for 20 years: "The prison which makes every effort at rehabilitation succeeds no better than the prison which leaves its inmates to rot." Succeeds, that is, in reducing the huge number of repeat offenders (70% of inmates). Improved behavior inside the walls turns out to be no indication of behavior...
...been battered by recent upheavals?war, riots, assassinations, racial strife, situational ethics, the youth rebellion. As disillusionment sets in, fewer and fewer Americans look to the churches, schools or Washington for moral leadership. Stern observers of today's widespread ethical torpor tend to agree with the 19th century French criminologist Jean Lacassagne: "A society gets the criminals it deserves...
James Q. Wilson, 43. His Harvard title is Professor of Government, but Wilson is a criminologist, a sociologist and an urbanologist as well. During the '60s, he wrote a book a year on subjects like the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, campus unrest, police behavior and urban politics. Wilson, presently a consultant to the Drug Enforcement Administration, was born in Denver, graduated from California's University of Redlands and the University of Chicago, has taught at Harvard since 1961. Having just
...Egypt's 360-seat Parliament. An active feminist, she held her own in a remarkable debate last year with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had come to Cairo to explore the possibilities of a merger between Egypt and Libya. Takla, who is married to Police General and Criminologist Karim Darwish, rebutted Gaddafi's chauvinistic brand of Islamic fundamentalism by arguing that it reduced women to a secondary role. When Gaddafi protested that women were weak, Takla retorted that "only in weak societies are women weak." Among the feminists present who cheered her on: Jehan Sadat, 40, the President...