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Criminology

Hoodlums Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life

Van Deburg William L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226104638, ISBN: HB: 9780226847191, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes – individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black...

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Black Child-Savers Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice

Ward Geoff K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226873183, ISBN: HB: 9780226873169, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 halftones, 8 tables, 1 line illus.

During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and mirroring the unequal racial politics of American democracy itself. Alongside this liberal "manufact...

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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 41 Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226009674, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United St...

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Culture Studies

Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Downing Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...

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Criminology

Iphigenia in Forest Hills Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Malcolm Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300181708, ISBN: HB: 9780300167467, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 21x14 cm

"She couldn't have done it and she must have done it". This is the enigma at the heart of Janet Malcolm's riveting new book about a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention. The d...

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Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 40 Crime and Justice in Scandanavia

Tonry Michael, Lappi-Seppala Tapio

ISBN: PB: 9780226808833, ISBN: HB: 9780226808826, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
525 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series expl...

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Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

Phillips Susan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226667669, ISBN: HB: 9780226667652, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line illus.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted fo...

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Business & Economics

Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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Political Science

Criminology

Tilted Playing Field Is Criminal Justice Unfair?

Uviller H. Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300183023, Yale University Press, November 2011
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this compelling new book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial i...

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Biography & Memoires

Criminology

Informant The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo

May Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300184136, Yale University Press, November 2011
450 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In "The Informant", historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965...

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