Tag-Archiv: USA

Criminal Justice (USA)

Christina Nord bespricht in der Taz (25.11.2011, S. 16) eine Reihe von True-Crime-Dokus, die auf dem Internationalen Dokumentarfilmfestival von Amsterdam gezeigt werden: Marc H. Simon: Unraveled (USA 2011). Steve James: The Interrupters (USA/England 2011; Website zum Film). Alix Lambert / David MacMahon: Bayou Blue (USA 2011; Website zum Film). JD Leete: Sealed Fates (USA 2011; [...]

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The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

By William J. Stuntz. Cambridge MA.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “The rule of law has vanished in America’s criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever [...]

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Crime Culture

Kristofer Allerfeldt: Crime and the Rise of Modern America: A History from 1865–1941. New York: Routledge 2011. Verlagsanzeige: “In Crime and the Rise of Modern America, Kristofer Allerfeldt studies the crimes, criminals, and law enforcement that contributed to a uniquely American system of crime and punishment from the end of the Civil War to the [...]

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Gefängnisreform (USA 2011)

Peter Moskos: In Defense of Flogging. New York: Basic Books 2011. Verlagsanzeige: “Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they’re easily ignored. Criminals– even low-level nonviolent offenders– enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that’s safely hidden from public view. Our ‘tough on crime’ political rhetoric offers us no way out, and prison [...]

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Todesstrafe

David R. Dow: The Autobiography of an Execution. New York: Twelve 2010. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “It is a chronicle of a life lived at paradoxical extremes: Witnessing executions and then coming home to the loving embrace of his wife and young son, who inquire about his day. Waging moral battles on behalf of people who [...]

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Merkwürdigkeiten anderswo

David Garland: Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press 2010. Verlagsanzeige (+ ToC, Excerpts): “For many Europeans, the persistence of America’s death penalty is a stark reminder of American otherness. The practice of state killing is an archaic relic, a hollow symbol that accomplishes nothing but [...]

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“Ripped from the Headlines” (Detective Fiction 1925-1930)

“When I first began studying the detective story in those innocent early 1980s, it was possible in a single summer to read every book-length work written about the genre —both the brilliant and the pedestrian — as well as most, it not all, of the journal articles. A summer will no longer suffice. And although [...]

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Making Heroes (Radio & Polizei, Forschung, USA)

Kathleen Battles: Calling All Cars. Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2010. Verlagsanzeige (inkl. ToC): “How the cops became more popular than the crooks. Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this [...]

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Popular Criminology (IV): Jack Bauer

Desmond Manderson: “Trust Us Justice: 24, Popular Culture and the Law.” Forthcoming in Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture. Ed. by Austin Sarat, 2010. Online zugänglich bei SSRN. Daher stammt auch der Abstract: The television series ‘24’ has been a television phenomenon which over seven series has spawned a mass following and innumerable spin-offs [...]

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Blick hinter’s Paravent

“Prisoner rape is one of this country’s most widespread human rights problems, and arguably its most neglected. Frustratingly, heartbreakingly—but also hopefully—if only we had the political will, we could almost completely eliminate it”: David Kaiser und Lovisa Stannow in ihrem Review-Essay “The Rape of American Prisoners”, dessen erster Teil jetzt im New York Review of [...]

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