Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had already defeated Tufts and Boston College by the unfathomable margins of 68-0 and 33-0, respectively. Northeastern was supposed to be the next victim...
...raped child. Why are "incest" and "sexual abuse" always in categories separate from "rape"? "Incest" is a noun, not a verb; there's no such thing as "to incest," and the victim and agent of incest are indistinguishable "committers of incest." "Committing incest" in our language is conceived as merely a violation of the accepted law and morality, not of the privacy of a woman's or child's body...
Although Ennis was initially charged with second-degree murder, the shooting "was clearly an accident," said assistant district attorney Perry Newman. Ennis was joking when he pointed the shotgun at his cousin, and his finger apparently bumped the trigger. Like more than 60 other shooting victims in TIME's survey, Tawanah Jean Griggs was the victim not of a crime but of a recklessly casual attitude about guns...
...Justices are again taking up a raft of cases involving confessions, searches and seizures, as well as half a dozen death-penalty appeals. Questions of privacy and personal integrity often dominate criminal cases. But because they involve drug crimes, say civil libertarians, many recent decisions have fallen victim to the war against that scourge. "The rules are going to be applied against all kinds of people who have nothing to do with drugs," warns New York University law professor Norman Dorsen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union. "If the trend continues, many people who say, 'This is a free...
...victim, Bryan Gibson, was in intensive care at Beth Israel Hospital, a hospital spokesperson said yesterday...