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Popular crime : reflections on the celebration of violence
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Title
Popular crime : reflections on the celebration of violence / Bill James.
ISBN
9781416552734 (hbk.)
1416552731 (hbk.)
9781439182727 (ebook)
1439182728 (ebook)
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Published
New York : Scribner, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 482 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Presents a cultural analysis of sensational crime in America that profiles such infamous cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Black Dahlia murder, and O.J. Simpson's trial to offer insight into topics ranging from evidence practices to radicalism.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2011
Contents
Plautius Silvanus ; L. Pedanius Secundus ; Elizabeth Canning
Elma Sands ; Helen Jewett ; Mary Rogers
Ann McAllister ; Missing white girls ; The Yale murder ; Webster/Parkman case ; On American crime rates
Boys on the ice ; On why certain crimes are chosen for fame ; Charlie Ross ; The Wild West
Lizzie Borden ; Motive, means, and opportunity argument ; On weighing evidence
"Profiting" from crime ; H.H. Holmes ; Kansas Charley ; William Goebel ; Old Man Rice ; Griffith J. Griffith ; Frank Steunenberg ; Chloe Canfield ; Erich Muenter : part 1 ; Stanford White ; Thomas W. Swope ; Radicalism and crime
Clarence Darrow and the McNamaras
Erich Muenter : part 2 ; On the astonishing openness of American society a hundred years ago
Old murder statistics ; Moman Pruiett ; On the evolution of the legal system
Mary Phagan introduction ; A system of categorizing crime stories ; Mary Phagan case
Robert Stroud : part 1 ; Grace Roberts ; Harry K. Thaw ; Sacco and Vanzetti
The Hall/Mills case ; The Oregon Train Robbery ; The Snyder/Gray case ; Summary of 1920s crimes
Levels of description ; The Lindbergh baby ; Post-Lindbergh journalism
The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
Mad dog killer stories ; Thalia Massie ; The Scottsboro boys ; Robert Stroud : part 2
William Heirens ; The Black Dahlia ; Caryl Chessman ; On the importance of what people choose to be interested in
Sam Sheppard
Lowell Lee Andres ; In Cold Blood ; Robert Stroud : part 3 ; The onion field ; The Warren Court
The Boston Strangler
On the success rate of the judicial system in high-profile cases ; True crime movies ; The Kennedy Assassination
The Michigan murders ; Definition creep
The Zodiac
Susan Nason ; Katherine Ann Power ; Juan Corona ; John List ; The Burger Court
Randall Dale Adams ; Ted Bundy ; Gary Tison ; Fatal vision ; Echoes in the Darkness
Charles Hatcher ; On the value of police sketches ; The Yale murder and the insanity defense ; Reviving prison reform
Sid vicious/Nancy Spungen ; Dallas Egbert III ; Dean Milo ; Chris Hobson ; Lawrencia Bembenek ; McMartin Preschool ; Wayne Williams ; John DeLorean ; Aside on car companies ; Jean Harris ; Jody Plauché ; Bernard Goetz ; Kenneth McElroy ; Joseph Kallinger
Richard Kuklinski ; Robert Hansen ; Putting the criminal justice system back together ; Lake and Ng
Jon Dunkle ; On the differences between real and fictional serial murderers ; New Bedford, Massachusetts ; Richard Grissom ; Ray Copeland ; William Lester Suff ; How serial murderers are caught
Computer spy case ; Mel Ignatow ; The Menendez brothers ; Pam Smart ; O.J. Simpson
On fictional elements in real crimes ; Rabbi Neulander
JonBenet Ramsey : part 1
JonBenet Ramsey : part 2 ; On prison reform ; On partisanship and justice
Summary of recent crime stories ; On false confessions ; On popular crime.
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