Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-04-30 | Page 14 | Does Crime News Work Harm?

d t DOES CRIME NEWS c WORK HARM Doe Does tho the reading reading of o crime new news II 11 lead to violation ot of o the law Do DoI Doli I the persons persona who read murder a stories want to go out and do like like- likewise c wise What Is the Influence of d cI crime news upon the reader n 11 J Here Is a new Idea advanced by Dr A A Brill Drill of ot New York City a psychologist and i w p gator Bator ot of the human Impulse He fi says In part We chafe chaCe under law and order Responsible citizens even venture r Into crime when it cornea comes to taking faking n 11 Income tax returns slightly or not 1 declaring declaring all the things they i bought abroad when they come comet I t home borne through the customs So much we allow ourselves but we hold back at stealing and andt t killing kl ing Yet we like to read about a c the clever crook who gets away t fro Iro honest policeman prIn prIn- prInt t prin-t t s t tent because the criminal ten ten- ten 1 dency in us finds finde a familiar note We Identify Identity ourselves with him relict and that gives gl relief to the sup eup- sup t f E pressed criminal tendency In us Well behaved people get their C outlet by proxy That Is why they C e c tend to forgive the criminal HeI He I has taken their sins upon himself 1 There may be a kernel of ot truth in what hat Dr Drill Brill says say Study your youri yourI i I feelings the next time you read a 1 murder story and try to find out