Volume 20, Number 6 · April 19, 1973
Getting Used to Mugging
By Andrew Hacker
Serpico
by Peter Maas
Viking, 300 pp., $8.95
Robbery and the Criminal Justice System
by John E. Conklin
Lippincott, 208 pp., $5.75
The most urgent issue in American cities, we are told, is the fear of crime. Yet if this is true, writers and politicians no longer speak confidently on the subject, only reuttering common-places we already know. (The age-old recourse to draconian punishments is a case in point.) But perhaps most exasperating is the unwillingness of too many of us to follow through on the implications of our arguments. Let us suppose, for example, that we wish to have crime-free cities, or at least some approximation of that condition. The standard solutions run as follows:
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