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Word: hilversum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encouraging permissiveness that engenders crime. Others accuse the courts, specifically judges whose views were shaped in the 1960s and '70s and who continue to hand out minimal, sometimes absurdly lenient, sentences. In one notable case last year a young man was stabbed to death outside a disco in Hilversum by a punker. The 23- year-old killer was given four years in prison, two of them suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands Tolerance Finally Finds Its Limits | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

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