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Product Description: Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent. Yet we vicariously seek it out in virtually all of our media: books, newspapers, television, films, and the theatre. Stuart Scheingold confronts this cultural contradiction and asks why street crime is generally regarded in the trivializing and punitive images of cops and robbers that attribute crime to the willful acts of flawed individuals rather than to the structural shortcomings of a flawed society...read more
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9780877228257, titled "The Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession" | Temple Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $64.50
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9781566390248, titled "Politics of Street Crime: Criminal Process and Cultural Obsession" | Reprint edition (Temple Univ Pr, June 23, 1992), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Americans find street crime terrifying and repellent.
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9780425140147 | Berkley Pub Group, December 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A collection of true stories about the experiences of cops features the story of the Alaskan State Trooper who ended a bloody murder spree, the eight-months-pregnant cop who faced down a gunman, and other heroic officers.
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9781556181566 | Brunswick Pub Co, January 1, 1996, cover price $25.00
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9780671885182 | Pocket Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The former Chief of International Operations for the U.
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9780553099942 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Follows federal marshals as they track down the nation's most wanted fugitives--including the elusive rapist of a female marshal--often risking their jobs amid the treacherous politics of the Justice Department
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9780553575446 | Bantam Books, October 1, 1997, cover price $6.50 | About this edition: Offers a riveting and disturbing true account of Federal Marshal Luke Zitto, whose hunt for a vicious killer leads him to a man who raped a fellow marshal, only to discover that one of these criminals is being protected by the government.
9780553763546 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1997, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Carsten Stroud brings a reads-like-a-novel style of journalism to this nonfiction book on the U.
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9780671885175, titled "The Manhunter: The Astounding True Story of the U.S. Marshall Who Tracked Down the World's Most Evil Criminals" | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: The former Chief of International Operations for the U.
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9781931202121 | Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, May 1, 2001, cover price $55.00
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9780815627517 | Syracuse Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $49.95
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9780815627760 | Syracuse Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $24.95
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9780895260512 | Regnery Pub, August 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Argues that the internment of ethnic Japanese during World War II was the result of real national security concerns, just as the Bush administration's moves to interrogate, track, and deport suspected terrorists is moderate and restrained.
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9780741432445 | Infinity Pub, August 25, 2006, cover price $18.95
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9781594600333 | Carolina Academic Pr, August 3, 2007, cover price $54.00
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9780312868208 | Forge, January 6, 2009, cover price $25.95
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9780765306401 | Forge, January 19, 2010, cover price $22.99
Miscellaneous:
9781429922227 | 1 edition (Tor Forge, April 1, 2010), cover price $9.99
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