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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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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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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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