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...uncomfortable fact," writes Charles Silberman, author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, "is that black offenders account for a dis- proportionate number of the crimes that evoke the most fear." This fear is felt by all Americans, but the anxiety felt by blacks is more intense, more pervasive, more real, for they are the ones who suffer most from violence. The white fear of black violence, recently personified by Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz, does not reflect reality: only 5% of the nation's 11,300 one-on-one slayings in 1983 involved whites killed by blacks...
...malign indifference, killing with the casual air of Bruce Lee dispatching men in a kung fu movie. For some, it seems as if murder has become a kind of noxious fashion or wanton recreation. "Members of the new generation kill, maim and injure without reason or remorse," writes Silberman...
...CERTAIN PEOPLE, Charles E. Silberman...
Vermonters are not likely to let anyone take Willis Bragg's job away. Says New York University Law Professor Linda Silberman, co-director of the 1979 study of lay judges: "The notion of abolishing the system in Vermont is like tearing down the American flag. It is a unique system, and it is going to remain." -By Michael S. Serrill. Reported by Richard Hornik/Montpelier
...Murray Silberman San Jose, Costa Rica...