The Basement
Author | : Kate Millett |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kate Millett |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda Fairstein |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0061844934 |
Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 brings together the murderers and muscle men, the masterminds, and the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Linda Fairstein, the bestselling crime novelist and former chief prosecutor of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office's pioneering Special Victims' Unit.
Author | : S. Powell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137031662 |
100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
Author | : Franklin E. Zimring |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2008-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199702535 |
Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.
Author | : Carl Sifakis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 996 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9780816040407 |
Author | : Lily E. Hirsch |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0472118544 |
A critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice
Author | : Nickie D. Phillips |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814764525 |
Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs deep into these and other celebrated characters, providing a comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in contemporary American comic books. This is a world where justice is delivered, where heroes save ordinary citizens from certain doom, where evil is easily identified and thwarted by powers far greater than mere mortals could possess. Nickie Phillips and Staci Strobl explore these representations and show that comic books, as a historically important American cultural medium, participate in both reflecting and shaping an American ideological identity that is often focused on ideas of the apocalypse, utopia, retribution, and nationalism. Through an analysis of approximately 200 comic books sold from 2002 to 2010, as well as several years of immersion in comic book fan culture, Phillips and Strobl reveal the kinds of themes and plots popular comics feature in a post-9/11 context. They discuss heroes’ calculations of “deathworthiness,” or who should be killed in meting out justice, and how these judgments have as much to do with the hero’s character as they do with the actions of the villains. This fascinating volume also analyzes how class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are used to construct difference for both the heroes and the villains in ways that are both conservative and progressive. Engaging, sharp, and insightful, Comic Book Crime is a fresh take on the very meaning of truth, justice, and the American way.
Author | : Rick Remender |
Publisher | : Image Comics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781534304376 |
COMING TO NETFLIX ON JUNE 5, 2020 AND STARRING MICHAEL PITT AND EDGAR RAMIREZ! The critically acclaimed collaboration between RICK REMENDER (SEVEN TO ETERNITY, LOW) and GREG TOCCHINI (LOW, Uncanny X-Force) is back in print. In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to terrorism and crime, the US government plans in secret to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. But the media has leaked news of the anti-crime signal one week before it was to go live, and now Graham Brick, who was planning a huge heist, has just a few days to turn the crime of the century into the last crime in American history. Collects the complete series, LAST DAYS OF AMERICAN CRIME #1-3.
Author | : Chris Raczkowski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2017-10-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108547338 |
A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly organize American literary history, with chapters highlighting crime fiction's reciprocal relationships with early American literature, romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. It surveys everything from 17th-century execution sermons, the detective fiction of Harriet Spofford and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, to the films of David Lynch, HBO's The Sopranos, and the podcast Serial, while engaging a wide variety of critical methods. As a result, this book expands crime fiction's significance beyond the boundaries of popular genres and explores the symbiosis between crime fiction and canonical literature that sustains and energizes both.
Author | : Hans Bertens |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2001-10-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230508316 |
This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.