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Should News of Crime Be Suppressed?
May 20, 1925 issue

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Crime is news. It is one of those unusual and abnormal aspects of life in which people generally are interested. The very fact that it is unusual and abnormal is evidence that the vast majority is law-abiding and socially minded. If Smith shoots his wife, it is news, and Brown wants Lo know about it. If Smith does not shoot his wife, Brown--who has not shot his either--does not ask that the fact be recorded in his daily newspaper, while Smith would be mad as a hornet if it were. Without doubt many persons get suggestions for crime from the newspapers; without doubt, also, many are deterred from crime through learning in the newspapers of its frequent failure, peril, and punishment.

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CRIMINAL procedure; CRIME; SOCIAL problems; ACTIONS & defenses; PROCEDURE (Law); MASS media
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