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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Palgrave Macmillan JAN-MARCH 2003
Jeff Ferrell Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Crime & Anarchy Pbk published February 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan at £12.99 ISBN: 140396033X

...provides an energetic and highly informed look at environmental and political movements to nonviolently 'reclaim the streets.'Publishers Weekly

From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, local police clash with graffiti artists, disorderly young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless on city streets in an attempt to create a sense of urban order and safety. Pundits talk about "quality of life crime" opponents talk about the "Disneyfication" of America's cities. Drawing on Jeff Ferrell's ongoing field research in a variety of cities, including Denver, San Francisco, New York, Phoenix, and Flagstaff, this lively account of Ferrell's adventures as a participant and researcher inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high risk "BASE jump" parachustists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, explores the contested day-to- day dynamics of public life and public space. Along the way the book takes on a remarkable range of contemporary public controversies involving these underground groups, documenting the ways in which their on-the-street anarchist politics and cultural self-invention shape resistance to new forms of spacial and legal control, and tracing the roots of this resistance through a subversive past that stretches from the Paris commune of 1871 to the punks of the 1970s. This look at extreme urban culture asks "whose city is it?" and argues that a disorderly urban culture is a better alternative than the Disneyfied city.

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Christophet Waldrep The Many Faces of Judge Lynch Extralegal Violence and Punishment in USA Published January 2003 by Palgrave Macmillan at £25.00 ISBN: 0312293992

The US is the most violent industrialized country in the world, and lynching that is, murder endorsed by the community may be a key to understanding America's heritage of violence and perhaps point to solutions that can eradicate it. While lynchings are predominantly racial in tone and motive, Christopher Waldrep's sweeping study of the meaning and uses of lynching from the colonial period to the present reveals that the definition of the term has shifted dramatically over time, and that the victims and perpetuators of lynching were as diverse as its many meanings. By examining lynching from a comparative and temporal perspective, Waldrep teaches us important lessons not only about racial violence in America, but about the ways in which communities define and justify crime and the punishment of its criminals. 

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