Word: norval
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secure and be more inclined to make the commitments, sacrifices and investments necessary for marital success. However, the restrictions on divorce will make life more difficult for those whose marriage goes sour. Will the beneficial consequences outweigh the detrimental ones? I don't know, and neither does anyone else. NORVAL D. GLENN Austin, Texas...
...demographic doomsayers are unduly alarmist. "There will be a slightly larger number of people relative to the overall population who are at high risk for doing bad things, so that's going to have some effect," he concedes. "But it's not going to be an apocalyptic effect." Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology at the University of Chicago, finds DiIulio's notion of superpredators too simplistic: "The human animal in young males is quite a violent animal all over the world. The people who put forth the theory of moral poverty lack a sense of history and comparative...
...keep the bottles uncorked. Talk to most experts in law enforcement, and they soon complain about the paucity of solid research to identify what works against crime. Norval Morris, a professor of law and criminology at the University of Chicago, compares the state of knowledge in his field to that in medicine earlier in the century, when doctors were commonly in the dark as to whether their treatments worked, or why. "Testing the consequences [for crime] of different drug policies, different housing practices, different police practices--it's very, very rarely done," he says...