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Best Books About Crime and Safety
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MURDER IN NEW YORK CITY UCLA professor of history Eric Monkkonen reports on his quantitative, multi-year study of who kills whom and why in New York. He says New York’s murder rate has been 10 to 15 times higher than London’s for the past 200 years, but says no single factor explains why. more info... | |
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• Gangs Of New York by Various. The movie "Gangs Of New York," directed by Martin Scorcese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis, has brought renewed attention to the city's long colorful history of criminal gangs, and especially to the Five Points, which historian Edwin Burrows calls "New York's most infamous neighborhood, singled out by generations of reformers and journalists as a hive of nightmarish squalor, violence, disease and crime." (Book list compiled by Gotham Gazette)
• Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime by James B. Jacobs, Coleen Friel, Robert Raddick. Examines how the Mafia infiltrated and controlled legitimate interests such as labor unions, construction, and waste disposal in New York City during the twentieth century.
• Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier. a tremendous book. duneier is arguing that the broken windows policy is inhumane. by getting to know the greenwich village booksellers he determines that the elder booksellers serve as an important model for others who make their lives on the street, serving a role society is not completely fulfilling. in fulfilling this role they become much different than the graffitti covered wall or the abandoned car and deserved to be treated as such.
• Small Town by Lawrence Block.
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