Word: probationer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
As the pigtailed, problem-prone housewife on TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Actress Louise Lasser, 37, has coped with a mass murderer, a philandering husband and romantic overtures from her sister's fiance. But few of her on-screen acts would match one off-screen performance last...
In that address, Carter said in part: "One of the sources for my understanding about the proper application of criminal justice and the system of equity is from reading Reinhold Niebuhr ... The other source of my understanding about what's right and wrong in this society is from a friend...
We were wrong. We are coming to the unhappy realization that the police can rarely prevent crime and can solve at best only a small fraction of offenses. We now know that prisons cannot rehabilitate offenders. Hundreds of experimental studies on the treatment of criminals reach the same conclusion: no...
Out of a similar philosophical confusion-and a similar experience of devoting great amounts of money and national effort to little avail-comes the muddle over what to do about crime. In earlier days, crime was simply punished. Offenders were locked away or done away with, without much thought of...
"In some ways she took it a good deal better than her lawyers." So said Albert Johnson, a leading member of Patty Hearst's defense team last week, after the 22-year-old publishing heiress was found guilty of armed bank robbery and use of a firearm to commit...