NATION AND WORLD
Research of violence is slashed
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A $798,000 government study of the possible links between pornography and youth violence, branded a "thorough waste of taxpayers' money," will be scaled down and its budget cut in half.
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author of scholarly articles and a former songwriter for the Captain Kangaroo children's television show
Her study was to be sweeping in nature, examining the possible effects of material in Playboy, Penthouse and Huster magazines on juveniles. She found that juveniles favor by juveniles as well as violence directed against juveniles.
how children are exhibited in the magazines.
House and Senate subcommittees investigated the contract for the study, awarded without a competitive bid to Judith Reisman an
The stir created by the project contributed to the resignation of the dean of American University's institution, which oversaw the research.
The changes come 11 months into the 2-year program and after $136,000 was spent, according to sources in the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
UNDER THE SCALED-DOWN plan she will be limited to examining
David Sansbury, acting dean of the AU school of education, said the new spending ceiling for the Reisman project is about $400,000.
The reduced plan was to have been submitted last week to the juvenile justice office but revisions had not been completed.
Patrick Martin, Reisman's business manager for the project, said a completion date was "not now imminent."
THE PROJECT WAS hampered by
clashes between Reisman and Myra Saddker, who resigned June 1 as dean of American University's education school.
She originally supported the project but said problems with it were "one of many factors": *if herecting her*, she had to go to the post. She declined to elaborate.
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The project led Congress to rewrite federal law requiring review by outside experts.
Reisman, 49, also declined comment.
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