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Crimes That Changed Our World
Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform
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The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it.
Sometimes reform comes as a society wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something about it.
As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as suddenly, do something about it.
Every trigger crime that appears in Crimes That Changed Our World highlights a societal problem that America has chosen to deal with, each in a unique way. But what these extraordinary, and sometime unexpected, cases have in common is that all of them describe crimes that changed our world.
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June 8, 2018 -
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- ISBN: 9781538102022
- File size: 10054 KB
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- ISBN: 9781538102022
- File size: 10054 KB
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- English
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June 1, 2018
Law scholar Paul and writer and researcher Sarah Robinson examine a series of major crimes of different forms from the early twentieth century to the present which sparked outrage and brought about social reforms. Each chapter focuses on such catastrophes and criminal acts as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, the murder of Kitty Genovese, drunk-driving fatalities, Cosa Nostra activities, 9/11, and the Enron scandal and analyzes their significance for the criminal-justice system. These useful case studies form an excellent survey of government reforms, going beyond the sensationalized events and even beyond the initial resulting reforms to raise questions about how change occurs in America. The text's structure brings order to the chaotic unfolding of human events, even as the Robinsons consider how crimes often defy generalization. Readers interested in American history, law, political science, social movements, and psychology will find this book useful, as will aficionados of the true-crime genre. Crimes That Changed Our World is an ambitious cataloging of the many ways crime has shaped America.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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