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Author : Heather Jane McCarty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book From Con-boss to Gang Lord written by Heather Jane McCarty and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830754
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Toughest Beat written by Joshua Page and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise of one of the most politically potent and feared interest groups in the nation: the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). As it made great strides for its members, the prison officers' union also fundamentally altered the composition and orientation of the penal field. The Toughest Beat is essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary crime and punishment, interest group politics, and public sector labor unions.
Author : Sudhir Venkatesh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440631891
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Gang Leader for a Day written by Sudhir Venkatesh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.
Author : Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191549
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Getting Tough written by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to serve or represent. Getting Tough sheds light on how this unprecedented growth of the penal system and the evisceration of the nation's welfare programs developed hand in hand. Julily Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by struggles over how to interpret and respond to the inequality and disorder that crested during this period."--Page 4 of cover
Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618257
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Captive Nation written by Dan Berger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in the United States. Black prisoners became global political icons at a time when notions of race and nation were in flux. Showing that the prison was a central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s through the 1980s, Berger traces the dynamic and dramatic history of this political struggle. The prison shaped the rise and spread of black activism, from civil rights demonstrators willfully risking arrests to the many current and former prisoners that built or joined organizations such as the Black Panther Party. Grounded in extensive research, Berger engagingly demonstrates that such organizing made prison walls porous and influenced generations of activists that followed.
Author : Clemens Bartollas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153264714X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book From Disgrace to Dignity written by Clemens Bartollas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States. In addition to highlighting his life, this work considers how redemption has affected his life. In addition, Minister Rico is identified as a Godfather. Much like the Godfathers found in organized crime families, Rico sees himself as providing a positive force to Vice Lords’ gang members. On one hand, what this involves is taking care of their needs (he feeds 150 families a day) and, on the other hand, providing guidance and direction for members’ lives.
Author : Cedric G. Johnson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804293008
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book After Black Lives Matter written by Cedric G. Johnson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After Black Lives Matter should be commended both for the clarity of its message and the bravery of its convictions." –Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker Why did a movement as powerful as the one inspired by the murder of George Floyd fall short of securing its most militant demands? The murder of George Floyd prompted a historic uprising that transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did that movement fall short of the most militant demands to defund and dismantle police departments? After Black Lives Matter argues that the failure to make institutional changes was not a simple result of the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing:socioeconomic inequality. The anticapitalist and downwardly redistributive politics of many Black Lives Matter activists has too often been drowned out in the flood of black wealth creation, the fetishism of Jim Crow black entrepreneurship, corporate diversity initiatives, and a quixotic reparations demand. Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of controlling the most dispossessed elementsof the working class. The way forward lies in building popular democratic power to advance redistributive policies and social welfare.
Author : Peter Maas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060930969
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Underboss written by Peter Maas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-01-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.
Author : Kristofer Allerfeldt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662996X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941 written by Kristofer Allerfeldt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public's understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.
Author : Heather Ann Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Speaking Out written by Heather Ann Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking Out : Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970sis a collection of readings profiling 21 different activist movements that came of age in the 60s and 70s. Each book chapter is written by recognized scholars who have studied and written about these movements in depth and is followed by primary source documents that they have chosen to provide additional insight into each movement. The chapters not only offer a comprehensive overview of the most important social and political activist groups of these two decades, but they also locate each group's complex origins, strengths, weaknesses, and legacy. As these authors make clear, the activist groups of this period each had their share of successes and each made their share of mistakes and miscalculations. Thus, together, they left a most complicated legacy for future generations.
Author : Frank Dimatteo
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 080654015X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Lord High Executioner written by Frank Dimatteo and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloodsoaked saga of the Murder, Inc. legend who helped create the modern American Mafia—one body at a time—featuring shocking eyewitness accounts . . . Umberto “Albert” Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between—and why every crime family had reason to want him dead—is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the twentieth century from Mafia insider and co-author Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia’s bloody rise from fresh-off-the-boat immigrant to founder of the notorious killer’s club Murder, Inc.—featuring never-before-told accounts from those who feared him most . . . They called him “The One Man Army.” “Mad Hatter.” “Lord High Executioner.” Albert Anastasia came to America mean and became a prolific killer. His merciless assassination of Mafia godfather Vincent Mangano is recounted here in chilling first-hand detail. He set the record: the first man in the history of American justice to be charged with four separate murders—and walk free after each one. But in the end, he was the last obstacle in rival Mafia hoodlum Vito Genovese’s dream of becoming the boss of bosses—and paid the ultimate price . . .
Author : Gene Blottner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470143
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Columbia Noir written by Gene Blottner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This filmography covers Columbia Pictures' noir titles released in the classic noir era, October 1940 to June 1962. All sub-genres are covered including British, western and science fiction. Included are the great Columbia films Gilda, Lady from Shanghai, All the Kings Men, In a Lonely Place, On the Waterfront, Anatomy of a Murder and Experiment in Terror. The films are examined in detail, with release dates, cast and production credits, production dates, synopses, reviews, notes and commentary on each film, the author's summation and the publicity "tag lines."
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Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Mining Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malachi Wagner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105565734
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Night Investigators written by Malachi Wagner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-26 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night Investigators is a fictional story about three African-American teenagers by the names of Peter, David, and Sasha who are trying to stop the many crimes being caused by James Robinson, an African-American man and his more intelligent alien friend Lord Org who hails from another dimension called the Angular Dimension where he his being treated like a god and rules with an iron fist and for some unknown reason, he came to the human world, a world which he seems to hate and met up with James Robinson, and the two of them have been planning on ruling both dimension with their warship called the Mega Dome and their slime mold creations, the Blue Chums, and their so called gang members Sal and Jimmy. It's up to Peter, David, and Sasha to stop their evil plans and save the city with the help from their friend Mary, an African-American policewoman and their retired grandfather Moses, a skilled martial artest and has taken his grandchildren under his wing while their parents are away.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
