Word: robison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that items in the public-works section of the bill could be cut, I feel journalistic accuracy should reflect the dual nature of the Public Works and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Bill. You might wish to express your opinion on whether the AEC portion should be cut. HOWARD W. ROBISON Congressman 33rd District, New York Washington...
...cost of "unwanted-pregnancy disease." In physical terms, Johns Hopkins Pediatrician Robert E. Cooke, himself the father of a handicapped child, said it will be "many, many years before we have the medical means to repair genetic defects in the womb." In terms of the family, Dr. Sophia M. Robison, emeritus professor of Columbia University's School of Social Work, said it was still not generally realized how widespread is parental rejection of children who were not wanted in the first place. "Much social work in this area," she said, "is picking up the pieces instead of going...
...simply compiles data volunteered by police departments, many of which report crimes in different ways, including not reporting crimes in order to soothe the public. Although the FBI now collects statistics from 8,500 law- enforcement agencies representing about 94% of the U.S. population, Columbia University Sociologist Sophia Robison charges that the final FBI summaries are "not worth the paper they're writ...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...
...Another debate rages over the FBI's "crime clocks." In tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that in the country...