Violence in American culture is deeply rooted
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Society must understand the cultural factors in American violence before trying to devise new crime control measures. Violence in this country has both cultural, sociological and technological bases. The cultural factors are the cultural approval of this kind of response and the ideological resistance to measures to control it. Noncultural factors are the decreasing approval for conformity to the rule of law and the rapid change of recent years. Violence is also prominent in the mass media. Historical examination of the violent response shows how deeply rooted it is in American culture.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Stop violence in the courthouse
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Precautions must be taken if courts are to control the increasing number of violent incidents occurring in courtrooms. Because federal courts have implemented security measures that include detection devices, they are safer than most state courts, although US marshals documented 362 threats to federal judges in 1991. The National Sheriffs Assn investigated 243 incidences of courthouse violence at the state and local levels in 1989-1990. The greatest increase in courtroom violence was in domestic and civil courts.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Critics of NOW's use of RICO belittle violence
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Tne First Amendment does not allow extremist demonstrators to threaten violence and to force others to give up their civil rights, and this is exactly what the "pro-life mafia" when they kept patients from entering abortion clinics and forced the doctors who worked there to wear bullet-proof vests to work every day. Legitimate protesters convey their message with peaceful means, and the defendants in NOW v. Scheidler did exactly the opposite. Using RICO against these defendants was appropriate.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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