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...apprehend a thief, or when measures had to be taken to deal with public health problems. Small wonder, then, that a member of a mob was rarely convicted for his riotous actions. In the 20th century we have become accustomed to seeing theft and looting accompany mob action, but surprisingly that association did not exist in the 18th century...
Crime not only did not increase during the Revolutionary War, but most of it, at least in New England, continued to involve religious and moral, not acquisitive or violent, offenses. William E. Nelson, analyzing the records of seven populous Massachusetts counties, finds an average of 23 prosecutions for theft each year before 1776 and 24 a year in the five years after 1776, hardly indicative of a crime wave. But there was an average of 72 prosecutions for sexual offenses each year before 1776 and 58 a year from 1779 to 1786, along with about 24 prosecutions a year...
...played by Chris Sarandon (the transvestite of Dog Day Afternoon), the rapist does not fit the profile of the typical sex offender, a street punk making his way up from petty theft to murder. No, he is Margaux's kid sister's music teacher, soliciting her influence to gain a hearing for his electronic compositions. Nor is his attack a brutish lunge out of the dark. The rape is strictly high fashion - a handsome bedroom setting, the victim tied prettily with silk scarves while he sodomizes her, the whole busi ness staged and photographed with stylish prurience...
Police have charged seven persons with trespassing this semester, compared to only three such arrests during the fall semester. During this period, theft and violent crime have decreased by about 40 per cent, Kahn said...
...critic is equally hysterical about another large-scale plagiarism: the Divine Comedy of Hilario Lambkin Formento. This nonbook is not a brazen, word-for-word theft, Domecq insists, but rather the best piece of descriptive criticism ever penned on Dante's masterpiece, since it is an exact replica of the original...