Save Our Youth: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 25, 1992, Volume 4

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Page 69 - But the two attitudes, that of control of crime by the hostile procedure of the law and that of control through comprehension of social and psychological conditions, cannot be combined. To understand is to forgive and the social procedure seems to deny the very responsibility which the law affirms, and on the other hand the pursuit by criminal justice inevitably awakens the hostile attitude in the offender and renders the attitude of mutual comprehension practically impossible.
Page 63 - At the time of her death, she was a teacher of political ethics to many lucky students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Page 106 - If you look, for example, at male monkeys, especially in the wild, roughly half of them survive to adulthood. The other half die by violence. That is the natural way of it for males, to knock each other off and, in fact, there are some interesting evolutionary implications of that because the same hyper-aggressive monkeys who kill each other are also hyper-sexual, so they copulate more and therefore they reproduce more to offset the fact that half of them are dying.
Page 112 - Criminals are organically inferior. Crime is the resultant of the impact of environment upon low grade human organisms. It follows that the elimination of crime can be effected only by the extirpation of the physically, mentally and morally unfit, or by their complete segregation in a socially aseptic environment.
Page 82 - It precludes such illformed questions as 'How is the world organized in the mind of a Muslim fundamentalist?' or 'How does the concept of Self differ in Homeric Greece and in the postindustrial world?
Page 92 - Perhaps the most significant finding in this study is that with all else controlled, there is a moderate to high inverse relationship between the severity of the sanction for the first in every pair of crimes and the time elapsed until the arrest for the second in the pair.
Page 39 - Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Page 108 - Genes and Crime," Scientific American, 268:2 (February 1993), 24-29. 21. The brochure inviting participants included the following: "genetic research holds out the prospect of identifying individuals who may be predisposed to certain kinds of criminal conduct, of isolating environmental features which trigger those predispositions, and of treating some predispositions with drugs or unobtrusive therapies.
Page 102 - Only we White people [Noi soli Bianchi] have reached the most perfect symmetry of bodily form. . . . Only we [have bestowed] . . . the human right to life, respect for old age, women, and the weak. . . . Only we have created true nationalism . . . [and] freedom of thought
Page 69 - It is quite impossible psychologically to hate the sin and love the sinner. We are very much given to cheating ourselves in this regard. We assume that we can detect, pursue, indict, prosecute, and punish the criminal and still retain toward him the attitude of reinstating him in the community as soon as he indicates a change in social attitude himself, that we can at the same time...

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