New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Univ.lllinois P
07 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Univ.lllinois P
JAN-MARCH 07
William D Carrigan
The Making of a Lynching Culture
Pbk published January 2007 by Univ.lllinois P at £14.99
ISBN: 0252074300
Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916
On May 15, 1916, a crowd of fifteen thousand witnessed the lynching of an eighteen-year-old black farm worker named Jesse Washington. Most central Texans of the time failed to call for the punishment of the mob's leaders. In "The Making of a Lynching Culture", now in paperback, William D. Carrigan seeks to explain not how a fiendish mob could lynch one man, but how a culture of violence that nourished this practice could form and endure for so long among ordinary people. Beginning with the 1836 independence of Texas, "The Making of a Lynching Culture" re-examines traditional explanations of lynching, including the role of the frontier, economic tensions, and political conflicts. Using a voluminous body of court records, newspaper accounts, oral histories, and other sources, Carrigan shows how notions of justice and historical memory were shaped to glorify violence and foster a culture that legitimized lynching.
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John M Hagedorn
Gangs in the Global City
Pbk published January 2007 by Univ.lllinois P at £15.99
ISBN: 0252073371
Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with globalization. John M. Hagedorn aims to correct this oversight by incorporating important theoretical advances in urban political economy and understanding changes in gangs around the world as a result of globalization and the growth of the information economy. Contrary to older conceptions, today's gangs are international, are often institutionalized, and may be explicitly concerned with race and ethnicity. "Gangs in the Global City" presents the work of an assortment of international scholars that challenges traditional approaches to problems in criminology from many different perspectives and includes theoretical discussions, case studies, and examinations of gang members' identities. The contributors consider gangs not as fundamentally a crime problem but as variable social organizations in poor communities that are transitioning to the new economy.
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