Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whenever legal principles are culled from the head of a troubled victim of crime, the legal system is worse...
...Goetz case is not remotely like a lynching, but is rather the overreaction of a paranoid crime victim; a victim whose attackers were Black. It is precisely because there is no certain culprit--only a frazzled electrical engineer and a violent society--that this case is argued in terms of the hypothetical...
...verdict in the Goetz case does present an example of how subtle racism--the kind that is captured in statistical surveys--can play itself out in a tangible way. When courts consider the racially-linked paranoia of a crime victim, race becomes an issue. When courts indulge this paranoia, the verdict has aspects of race...
...challenge now merely to ensure that racism not prevent Blacks from having the equal opportunity to act outside the law in self-defense? The recent flurry of commentary on the Goetz case suggests that we are at such a point, that indeed common sense has become the latest victim of the streets...
...justify a system in which a convicted rapist who hacked off the forearms of his victim is considered to have "paid his legal debt to society" after serving "nearly eight years of a 14-year four-month sentence" ((NATION, June l))? Have rape and mutilation become so commonplace that they are treated like a traffic offense...