A Crisis of Innocence

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Crime and Punishment #8, pg. 49.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a school principal and a fourteen-year-old.

Crime and Punishment #8, pg. 6.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme that Crime and Punishment has been a positive educational force in the life of children.

Crime and Punishment #6, pg. 44.jpg
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.

Crime and Punishment #5, pg. 24.jpg
Reader's forum page wherein the editors highlight the wide distribution of their comic and suggest it may have had some impact in the decrease in juvenile crime.

Crime and Punishment #2, pg. 37.jpg
Reader's forum page with letters from mothers. The mothers approve that their children read Crime Does Not Pay.

Crime and Punishment #1, pg. 4.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme of criminals revealing that reading Crime Does Not Pay showed them the error of their ways.

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Letter that was presumably sent in by a young adult. Mann questions the validity of censoring crime comic books, given that many believe that juvenile delinquency is more likely linked to upbringing.

Juvenile Delinquency Editor.pdf
A letter from a child to the editor of The Washington Post. The child condemns adults for being delinquents themselves.

Portland Press Herald February 24 1949 crop.jpg
Claims that the blaming of juvenile delinquency on comic books is absurd. Miles notes that radio and film are far more likely to influence children to act violently.
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