Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrists estimate that the percentage of potential mass killers in the U.S. ranges as high as 1 per 1,000 of the population, or about 200,000 Americans. Most, of course, will never carry out their aggressive urges, but enough will so that unsuspecting people will continue to fall victim to their irrationality. Says Houston Psychiatrist C. A. Dwyer: "Potential killers are everywhere these days. They are driving cars, going to church with you, working with you. And you never know it until they snap...
Muddling Through. As a girl, Luci often seemed the victim of a younger-sibling complex, which she assuaged with the usual attention-getting gambits of childhood and adolescence. It was not a conventional upbringing for either Luci or her older sister Lynda Bird, now 22, because of frequent separations from their parents. Throughout the "deprivileged" years, as the sisters call them, Father was in perpetual political motion in Washington and Texas while Mother had the family interests to mind; until Luci was eleven, even her school year was divided between Austin and Washington. Most summers she went to camp...
Even so, Miranda has plunged many police into despair. Omaha's Public Safety Director Francis Lynch argues, "If we can't get to the truth, we can't solve cases. If we can't talk to the accused, whom can we talk to? The victim is often either dead or missing." Cincinnati Prosecutor Melvin Rueger complains, "Guilt or innocence is no longer the issue. The prime issue is whether a suspect was searched, interrogated or detained." Minneapolis Chief Calvin Hawkinson hits the "tone" of the ruling: "The emphasis of the court's decision...
Communist nations are plagued with just about all the crimes known to the West, and a few others besides. Crimes against "socialist property" cover all acts in which the state is the victim-anything from black-marketeering to wrecking a state-owned truck. About a third of all crimes in Eastern Europe are "economic crimes" that cost the state untold millions annually. In 1961 and 1962, the Soviet Union revived the death penalty for economic crimes, and roughly 200 offenders have since been sentenced to death...
Tourists should have no problem knowing when their insult has struck home. They will "immediately notice the sudden contortion of the victim's features, the suffusion of blood to his head, the clasping and unclasping of his hands, the spasmodic twitchings of his whole frame and a number of other outward manifestations of inward disquiet. And surely this will be a sufficient reward...