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Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens Jan 2009

Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens

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reviewing, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat eds., When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice, (2009)


Guns, Youth Violence, And Social Identity In Inner Cities, Jeffrey Fagan, Deanna L. Wilkinson Jan 1998

Guns, Youth Violence, And Social Identity In Inner Cities, Jeffrey Fagan, Deanna L. Wilkinson

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While youth violence has always been a critical part of delinquency, the modern epidemic is marked by high rates of gun violence. Adolescents in cities possess and carry guns on a large scale, guns are often at the scene of youth violence, and guns often are used. Guns play a central role in initiating, sustaining, and elevating the epidemic of youth violence. The demand for guns among youth was fueled by an "ecology of danger," comprising street gangs, expanding drug markets with high intrinsic levels of violence, high rates of adult violence and fatalities, and cultural styles of gun possession …


Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1994

Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar

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