Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden, catastrophic form of embolism is marked by severe pain in the chest, fever and coughed-up blood. Often the victim is known to have had some blood-vessel disorder, such as phlebitis. In the creeping insidious form, there is no such history of clotting disease to alert the doctor. The patient usually complains of nothing more precise than shortness of breath or fainting, though in slightly more severe cases he may collapse completely on exertion. What has happened, said Dr. Goodwin, is that small blood clots have blocked some of the narrower blood vessels leading to the lungs...
What About the. Victim? Goldberg did more than criticize; he proposed some reforms. After "careful screening," he said, most defendants should be released without bail pending trial. And "we should certainly consider adopting procedures whereby persons erroneously charged with crime could be reimbursed for their expenditures in defending against the charge...
...well aware, Goldberg added, that whenever anyone urges more help for the accused, "the question arises: But what about the victim? We should confront the problem of the victim directly; his burden is not alleviated by denying necessary services to the accused. Many countries throughout the world, recognizing that crime is a community problem, have designed systems for government compensation of victims of crime. Serious consideration of this approach is long overdue here. The victim of a robbery or an assault has been denied the protection of the laws in a very real sense, and society should assume some responsibility...
...Crippen telling the truth? This tidy thriller makes a fascinating case that he was. With considerable acuteness Director Robert Lynn demonstrates that murder can sometimes be understood as a species of double suicide, that sometimes in moral truth the victim is a killer and the killer a victim...
Belle (Coral Browne) demands that he come back to her, and gets so importunate he gives her a sedative. Absentmindedly, without really meaning to, he gives her much too much. She dies, a victim of what might be called a Freudian sleep. The audience is left with the impression that Belle was practically begging to be murdered, and that Dr. Crippen, as usual, was just too weak...