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Word: pennekamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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...names of all youthful violators, but freedom to use their judgment on what names to print. Many of them also feel that names should be used more often to put pressure on the offenders and their parents. Says the Miami Herald's Associate Editor John D. Pennekamp: "Juvenile criminals are as bad as adult criminals-or worse. Maybe if they see it in the papers, the juveniles will believe it themselves." The strict Florida law preventing courts and police from divulging juvenile names recently led a young hoodlum to jeer at Miami Daily News Reporter Damon Runyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editors' Dilemma | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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