Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past 18 months may serve as some perverse form of inducement to the alienated "loners" who carry them out. After all, if there is a pattern in the motive for the attacks it is generally a sense of alienation and desire to take violent revenge for perceived -- or real -- social exclusion. In a culture that has since World War II been built primarily around the television set, the coverage devoted to high school shootings has to have an allure for the angry outsiders searching for the most dramatic means available to express their rage...
...There is no single or simple explanation for the emergence of high school shootings as a social phenomenon. And yet they are occurring too often to be dismissed as aberrations. Factors ranging from gun laws to a violent popular culture to the breakdown of community values have combined to turn the playground massacre into a symbol of a deep cultural crisis in late-20th-century America. The First Lady a few years ago used the aphorism "It takes a village to raise a child" as the title for a book. But America has yet to make that particular African proverb...
...said the state should not spend so much money on prisons when crime rates are dropping and when other social problems need attention...
Having strong social relationships and livingnear family was also a commonality among mostcentenarians...
...rhetoric of criminals distances us from people in prison and distracts us from pressing questions like what it means to live in a society that imprisons millions of people in response to social problems. Why is it that 80 percent of the women in prison reported incomes of less than $2,000 in the year before their arrest? Why are there so few jobs that are meaningful and pay a living wage? What makes people desperate enough to use and sell drugs? Why are millions of dollars being shifted from public spending on higher education to build a new prison...