Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because victims and witnesses are afraid to report them. "These are not flashy cases," says John Stein, spokesman for the National Organization for Victim Assistance. "They are mundane, low-visibility cases, typically involving family violence." Witnesses and victims who are poor particularly "li ve at the mercy of tough, lawless individuals," says Atlanta's Assistant District Attorney Thomas Hayes. "You have to admire them for the times we are able to persuade them to testify...
Wherever the lawless Cubans have migrated, crime has soared. In Las Vegas, where there are an estimated 3,500 boat people, Marielitos account for 25% of the cocaine trade. In New Orleans, over a ten-month period ending last April, there were 15 Cuban homicides involving 29 Marielitos as either murderers or victims. This criminal element tends to prey on other Cubans; its tastes run to brutal crimes of random opportunity. A chilling example is a Marielito who specializes in assaulting Miami Beach's elderly. One 90-year-old victim was hurled from his bed, kicked in the face...
...buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location. The fare beater on the subway presents less threat to life than the landlord who ignores fire safety statutes. The most immediately and measurably dangerous scofflawry, however, also happens to be the most visible. The culprit is the American driver, whose lawless activities today add up to a colossal public nuisance. The hazards range from routine double parking that jams city streets to the drunk driving that kills some 25,000 people and injures at least 650,000 others yearly. Illegal speeding on open highways? New surveys show that on some interstate...
RESEMBLING NOTHING so much as Little Women gone wild, A Bloodsmoor Romance leads readers on a merry six hundred page chase after five nineteenth century sisters as they gallivant from their ancestral Bloodsmoor Valley to the Broadway stage, the lawless West the spirit world and back again. Written as a parody of a romance, Joyce Carol Oates latest novel excels in the form it spoofs. True to convention a prim but often hyperbolic narrator tells of shocking year undeniably romantic escapades with an unabashed use of italics and the results are hilarious...
...convincing the parole board that they have been rehabilitated." Prisoners are in a perpetual, anxious limbo and would generally prefer to know their release date from the outset. Time served for identical crimes can vary five-fold or more. Such a routine does little to demonstrate to the lawless the law's evenhanded integrity. Furthermore, says Morgenthau, "if prisoners knew how long they were going to serve, some of them would go into rehabilitation programs because they wanted to be rehabilitated," and not as a ruse to win parole...