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...Goetz's Fate...
...Editors: Bernhard Goetz [NATION, April 8], guilty or innocent, may have taken us to a new horizon by his actions to protect himself. But will our subways be safer in the future if half the passengers are carrying concealed handguns? Steve Laymon Linwood...
Your article about Goetz convinces me that our criminal-justice system is a sham. Goetz called himself a monster in his highly emotional original confession. This shows that he is an introspective man with a conscience, a man not accustomed to violence. I seriously doubt that his victims sat around assessing the morality of their conduct. Simie Maryles Van Dereck Provincetown, Mass...
...socialite, Phyllis Morrow, 42, wife of a wealthy oilman. Her interest began in 1980 after she and her husband were robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry. Her group also rates judges, advises victims on dealing with police and courts, and lobbies for laws to aid victims. Since the Goetz case, Morrow claims, "every legislator seems to want on the bandwagon to support a victims bill of rights...
Many experts see the Goetz-like urge to attack an assailant as self- defeating. A new study done for the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice suggests that passive resistance is a more effective tactic than is a counterattack. The study found that the victim is far more likely to get hurt when attempting to subdue the aggressor, particularly one with a knife or gun. The kind of resistance that has the best chance of success, explains Richard Block, a sociologist at Loyola University of Chicago, who conducted the study, is to attract the attention of possible rescuers...