...If most executions were for murder, there were many other more exceptional categories of crime that could earn the death penalty. But they seldom told a story of crime and punishment at the gallows different from the norm. The exceptions are when the condemned was white or, to a lesser degree...

..., London decided to write a prison novel. This was a novel that would challenge and change public assumptions about crime and imprisonment. The Star Rover/The Jacket was based on the life story of Edward Morrell, a former San Joaquin Valley gang member and ex-convict who...

... Michigan Legislative Committee Racketeering Devlin Peter Indelicato Giuseppe San Francisco Calif Dupree Fred Gangs La Prad Barbara Organized crime Saloons Smuggling rings in drug trade White George H Criminals Italian Mafia Liquor trade Mafia Schneider Stephen Siragusa Charles TBA...

...This chapter considers the racialized ways that men were policed for gambling in New York City before and during World War II. It explores Fiorello La Guardia and Lewis Valentine’s campaigns against gambling and organized crime and considers how these crackdowns targeted policy gambling in Black...

... was tumultuous, marked by devastating riots, surging crime, and middle-class flight from the city. Politics was often uncivil and chaotic as Washingtonians struggled to be heard in a clamorous era marked by attacks on authorities – Congress, the police, city planners, developers, and others. But for city...

...This chapter examines the redefinition of municipal swimming pools in the northern United States that began in the Progressive Era, when large cities designed pools to combat crime and juvenile delinquency. It looks at the proliferation of private pools after 1950, most of them located...

... of these practices reveals that those who participate in PCC arrive at their destinations not because of the organization of the PCC, but because of their "dispositions". The dynamic that emanates from these dispositions bears remarkable difference to more standard concepts of "organized crime" or "criminal...

... as a creative social formation that challenges the concept of organized crime and offers another approach to the notion of the prison gang. Brothers Clastres Pierre First offender Hierarchical organization Housekeepers Inmates Micropolitics PCC First Command of the Capital Picasso Pablo Pilots State...

... notions of criminality—though sometimes reinforced—are often challenged. Bauer John Boundary ies Disorder Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Opgenorth Anna Marie Social surround Suttles Gerald Alcohol use Anger Apathy Broken windows theory Crime Demoralization Fear Graffiti Litter Safety Social...

... States. A critical aspect of marijuana's history and prohibition in the United States was its reputation in Mexico for causing crime, violence, and madness. It was from this atmosphere that effects of the drug were sensationalized in the media and as a result of which existing perceptions in the United...

...This book begins by arguing that America's high incarceration rate prompts impassioned debate. Politicians and activists, editorialists and community leaders consider a range of issues. They discuss the severity of drug crime sentencing, the ethics of for-profit prisons, and the inordinate number...

...This chapter focuses on New York Times reporter Adam Liptak, who wrote that the “United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment.” More than two million people live...

... and political speeches. The allusions to black crime represented the approaches white Mississippians and other white Southerners embraced to justify their racial practices, one of which was the constitutional arguments for the state's rights over federal authority. Coleman J P Crime Gore Ney M Jr Integration...

...This chapter explores Otto Wood’s early years in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Growing up in the foothills of North Carolina, Wood established a reputation as a hobo and a thief in his pre-teen years. Wood’s earliest crimes are detailed as well as his freight hopping travels along the spine...

... Raleigh NC McLean Angus W Morrison Cameron James Jesse Manhunt Wilkes County North Carolina Shootout Police Crime Salisbury North Carolina New Year’s Eve It is simply a matter of self-defense for the public that one of the Wood type be killed and the sooner that is done the better...

... Brothers Riverside Beach Charleston S C Scanlonville S C Seabreeze N C Thomas Irma Wilmington N C World War II Calloway Cab Civil rights protests Gambling industry Mary land “Shag” dance Alton Joseph Jr Anne Arundel County Md Kefauver Committee Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime...

...Against the backdrop of President Bill Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill, this chapter interrogates hypergamy or marrying up and the figure of the gold digger in urban fiction novels/street literature such as Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) , Omar Tyree's Flyy Girl...

... the 1930s through the 1950s. It emphasizes Great Society, War on Crime, and civil rights policies and highlights the book’s central argument, main themes, and key local and national actors. The introduction provides background on local groups like the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, the Federal...

... forces against which the PCC has declared war and the methods and analytic concepts traditionally employed by social scientists concerned with organized crime, incarceration, and policing. Biondi posits that the PCC embodies a “politics of transcendence,” a group identity that is braided together...

...Centered on a series of dramatic murders in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Richmond, Virginia, this book uses these gripping stories of crime to explore the evolution of sensationalism in southern culture. In Richmond, as across the nation, the embrace of modernity was accompanied...