Research Catalog

Title

Crime and justice in the city as seen through The Wire / edited by Peter A. Collins, David C. Brody.

Publication

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collins, Peter A. (Peter Alan)
• Brody, David C.

Description

xviii, 350 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Wire (Television program)
• <<The>> wire Fernsehsendung
• Social problems on television
• Social problems
• Social Problems
• social issues
• Social problems
• Social problems on television
• Soziale Probleme
• Kriminalität
• Baltimore
• Baltimore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: using the wire to contemplate urban crime and criminal justice / David C. Brody and Peter A. Collins -- Section 1 Criminal Justice and Urban Institutions -- And All the Pieces Matter: Thoughts on The Wire and the Criminal Justice System / Susan A. Bandes -- "Way Down in the Hole": Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire / Anmol Chaddha and William Julius Wilson -- I Got the Shotgun: Reflections on The Wire, Prosecutors, and Omar Little / Alafair S. Burke -- Wartime America and The Wire: A Response to Posner's Post-9/11 Constitutional Framework / Dawinder S. Sidhu -- Section 2 Police Culture, Ethics, and Intelligence -- Representations of 'Po-lice' Culture in The Wire / Peter F. Parilla and Wendy N. Wyatt -- Without Regard to the Usual Rules / Jonathon A. Cooper and Jonathan Bolen -- The Compstat Process as Presented in The Wire / Gennaro F. Vito -- Section 3 City Politics and the War on Drugs -- "Respect the Depths": Campaign Rhetoric Meets Bureaucratic Reality / Sarah Reckhow -- The War on Drugs through The Wire's Looking Glass / Jennifer M. Balboni -- Harm Reduction Strategies: The Hamsterdam Perspective / Zachary Hamilton and Lauren Block -- Section 4 Criminological Theory and The Wire -- Injustice, Emotions and West Baltimore Collectives / Stephen K. Rice -- That Ain't The Only Way To Be: The Reintegration of Dennis "Cutty" Wise From an Individual-, Community-, and System-Level Perspective / Gabriel T Cesar and Kevin A. Wright -- Perspectives on Structure, Normative Conflict, and Social Disorganization in The Wire / Kyle J. Thomas and Matthew R. Nobles -- Women of The Wire and The Sociological Imagination -- Laurie a. drapela -- "...one of those at-risk children": adolescent development, juvenile delinquency, and system response in the wire / Christopher J. Sullivan and James T. McCafferty.

ISBN

• 9781611630336
• 1611630339

LCCN

2012050911

OCLC

• ocn828142659
• 828142659
• SCSB-1755598

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library