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...Lady Bird Johnson, in Jan. 1968, near the zenith of the Vietnam War, just before the Tet Offensive. Kitt had given birth to a daughter in 1960, from her five-year marriage to real-estate developer William O. McDonald, and spoke more as a mother than as a criminologist. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the First Lady. "They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers...
...Alperon brothers, say police, were feuding with at least four gang families. "They are the most primitive type," says Menachem Amir, a respected Israeli criminologist. "They specialize in violence and extortion. You'd find men like them in the Roman markets of antiquity. Nothing's changed." They weren't quite 007 villains: they fought pitched battles over who would control the $50 million market in recycled plastic bottles...
...card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call attention to themselves by committing a crime...
...Some observers say its impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small cities there was more room to go up. And that may be what we're seeing here." Wherever there's a 20% spike, as Boston saw not long ago, he says, there...
...parts of Africa that have far less crime. But relative poverty - missing out while others seem to be gaining - can certainly fuel violent resentment. "There isn't as much support for the proposition that poverty causes crime in the international criminological literature as you might expect," writes South African criminologist Anthony Altbeker in a study published last month. "However, there is a much stronger conviction among academics that inequality causes crime; that the difference between what the rich and poor earn matters more than the depth of poverty...