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In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime s …
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our …
The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1.5 million Americans currently …
We call it justice-the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying …
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "e;Tornado Alley,"e; near a nuclear facility or in a …
From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials …
O. J. Simpson. The Central Park jogger. Bensonhurst. William Kennedy Smith. Rodney King. These are more than crimes and criminals, more than court cases. They are cultural events …
It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese …
Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens-and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new …
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes-individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated …