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Gang Leader for a Day

Author : Sudhir Venkatesh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440631891
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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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.

The Toughest Beat

Author : Joshua Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830754
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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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.

Getting Tough

Author : Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191549
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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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

Captive Nation

Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618257
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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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.

After Black Lives Matter

Author : Cedric G. Johnson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804293008
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)

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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.

From Disgrace to Dignity

Author : Clemens Bartollas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153264714X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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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 171 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.

Organized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941

Author : Kristofer Allerfeldt
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662996X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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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.

Speaking Out

Author : Heather Ann Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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.

Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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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:

Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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:

What You Do Is Who You Are

Author : Ben Horowitz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006287134X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book What You Do Is Who You Are written by Ben Horowitz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want? To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture. Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture. What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted? Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow.

Columbia Noir

Author : Gene Blottner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470143
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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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."

Social Issues in America

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459717
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Social Issues in America written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.

Global Organized Crime

Author : Mitchel P. Roth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317267184
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Global Organized Crime written by Mitchel P. Roth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the maelstrom of globalization and cyberspace, organized crime continues to defy definition. A diverse array of activities is perpetuated by criminal organizations, criminal groups and associations, and gangs, and it is clear that one specific label is no longer adequate. This book offers a uniquely global approach to organized crime and the multitude of forces that shape it in the 21st century. As well as discussing definitions of and the historical roots of organized crime, this book examines various forms of organized crime around the world in the US, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, Russia and Europe, Asia and Africa. This revised and updated new edition includes coverage of: the rise of the ’Ndrangheta in Italy and their global expansion; the impact of drug legalization on organized crime and the problem of methamphetamine; organ trading, money laundering, and animal poaching; changes in gang traditions and gangland penitentiaries; the decentralization of Mexican cartels, the growth of opium production in Myanmar, and the drug war in Africa; and the advancement of ISIS and the emergence of the Silk Road and the Dark Net. This book is essential reading for students engaged in the study of global and transnational organized crime, with features including chapter overviews, key terms, critical thinking questions, and case studies.

Blood Covenant

Author : Michael Franzese
Publisher : Whitaker Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780883688670
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Blood Covenant written by Michael Franzese and published by Whitaker Distribution. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their lives. Book jacket.

Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement - October 2020

Author : Thomas Hunt
Publisher : Thomas Hunt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement - October 2020 written by Thomas Hunt and published by Thomas Hunt. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue focuses on Nicola "Nick" Gentile, Mafia leader in U.S. and Sicily, author of 1963 tell-all autobiography. Informer provides Gentile's entire life story, building on original research by Mafia history experts, balancing Gentile's self-serving and self-aggrandizing autobiographical work with verifiable history, correcting misinformation and filling in wide gaps left in his personal account. In addition to studying Gentile's life and career, Informer provides biographical information for dozens of individuals who contributed in interesting ways to his life story. Also in this issue: - 1900s Mafia feuds in Los Angeles, - Book excerpts, - Book announcements, - COVID-19's impact on Mafia, - Obituary. Contributors: Thomas Hunt, David Critchley, Steve Turner, Lennert van't Riet, Richard N. Warner, Justin Cascio, Sam Carlino, Michael O'Haire, Jon Black, Margaret Janco, Bill Feather, Christian Cipollini.

The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland

Author : Robert Candlish Henderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland written by Robert Candlish Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: