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Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5" -- a group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (192 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the controversial 1992 attack by federal agents on the Idaho home of Randy Weaver, a white seperatist. The ten-day siege, begun over a minor gun charge, resulted in the deaths of Weaver's son, wife, and dog.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives--family, relationships, jobs--into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Her boyfriend had asked her to sign for some packages; packages she did not know were filled with marijuana. As a young Black woman falsely accused, prosecuted, and ultimately imprisoned, Haynes suffered the abuses of our racist and sexist justice system. But rather than give in to despair, she decided to fight for change....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing with impunity? The problem goes beyond banks deemed "Too Big to Fail" to almost every large corporation in America-- to pharmaceutical companies and auto manufacturers and beyond. The Chickenshit Club-- an inside reference to prosecutors too scared of failure and too daunted by legal impediments to do their jobs-- explains why. A character-driven...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author relates how her cousin was imprisoned at the age of fifteen for attempted carjacking and how she took him in upon his release, only to lose him to the deadly streets of South Central L.A.
Author
Publisher
Key Porter Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dave and Kate Bagby's son Andrew, a young doctor, was murdered in November 2001. His body, lying in a blood-soaked gravel grave, was discovered in Keystone State Parkoutside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by a homeless man searching dumpsters. The murderer was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner -- also a doctor. Dr. Turner, knowing charges would be filed against her, fled to Canada . While fending off extradition efforts by US law enforcement, Dr. Turner discovered...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Atria Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the confirmed murders of more than three hundred women in the border city of Juárez, Mexico, as well as reports of hundreds of missing women, traces the work of the Mexican police, and speculates on who is behind the attacks.
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