Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheppard has declared that he wants a retrial to establish his innocence. Although the state case against him may now largely rest on dead or forgetful witnesses, Sheppard got his wish last week from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan, who ordered a retrial because "society has been the victim of a heinous crime, and it demands redress...
...since Trader Horn. Squeamish viewers will head for home in the first 20 minutes or so, when Producer-Director-Star Cornel Wilde swiftly dooms three last-century white hunters and a file of blacks, attacked and captured by a horde of warriors from a tribe they have insulted. One victim is basted with clay and turned over a spit, another is staked out as the victim of a cobra...
...nightclub manager ejected an unruly patron; with two friends, the patron stabbed and kicked the manager to death. The offenders went to prison; the victim's widow and children received...
...unmarried woman of 30 met a stranger on a bus, invited him home for a meal. Whereupon he broke her arm and raped her. After granting $3,337 compensation, the board slashed it to $2,668 on the ground that the victim was 20% responsible. >A man of 29 was shot by the husband of the woman with whom he was living. The husband went to prison, and the wounded lover got $1,512. >A boy of eight was blinded with a stick by another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal...
Every board member reviews about ten cases a week, paying particular attention to the victim's own degree of responsibility in the crime. A dissatisfied claimant can appeal to the other five board members and get a closed hearing. So far, only 8% have done so. Conversely, no victim has yet successfully sued a criminal, in which case the board would get its money back...