John Liddle Criminal Defence Lawyer
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In the United States over the past three decades, the wave of social change that has most altered the shape of American life, has been what the N.Y.U. sociologist Patrick Sharkey calls the great crime decline.

The show is often subtly astonishing.

The American writer Paul Fussell in "Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War" (1989, Oxford Press), a book which is largely a sociological analysis of the underbelly of WWII, talks of group mentalities and the blind commitment and ungainly self-sacrifice to the "war effort". He notes "It may now seem hard to believe that a women's basketball game at Northwestern University in 1944 was stopped by the referee so that all ten players could search the floor f...or a bobby-pin fallen there. Copper was essential for rotating-bands on artillery shells as well as for military telephones and radio parts..." Of course whether any group of 10 people should be wasting their time searching for bobby pins, or for that matter, playing basketball, was beside the point. I think of this in the context of Jordan...strange bedfellows, no doubt. But in the cultural legal field we are I think we are soon going to be moving to counting minutes, rather than weeks, as our cases progress through the criminal justice system. The AG has reacted to Jordan in a predictable micromanagement way...every moment requires elucidation and explication. No consideration of course is given to the time wasted in talking about time, rather than the time that could be spent actually doing the job. The big picture defines the little picture...take as much time and energy as you need to find that bobby pin, folks, this is where we are.