Word: wrongdoers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then a law student. She filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
...this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney ambles ineluctably after the wrongdoer...
Force Academy, the cadets are not supposed to tolerate infractions, but they are encouraged to talk privately with a suspected wrongdoer to learn his side of the incident. If he has a reasonable excuse, the matter can be dropped then and there. Even if the reviewing committees eventually find a cadet guilty, they can mete out punishment short of dismissal...
...Just short of herem (excommunication) in the Judaic tradition is niddui (ostracism), the shunning of a wrongdoer by the whole community. Some extreme Orthodox sects still engage in the practice, but it has otherwise fallen into disuse. Last week, however, niddui was proclaimed against Rabbi Shlomo Lorincz, a member of parliament, by Israel's Chief Rabbinate...
...country that doesn't want to live in chaos has to establish a tradition of law." While the Bible extols mercy, it also demands justice and honors those who seek it?those who, in the words of the Sermon on the Mount, "hunger and thirst for righteousness." If every wrongdoer deserved unlimited mercy, police could not arrest murderers, district attorneys could not prosecute slumlords, and ombudsmen like Ralph Nader could not attack the shoddy practices of Industry...