Category Archives: Crime

Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries in La Cienega Heights

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Luke Ford

Criminology professor Ana Munoz produced this 2015 ethno-graphic history of La Cienega Heights. From Amazon: “Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries…explores the history of the area to explain how Cadillac-Corning became viewed by outsiders as a “violent neighborhood” … Continue reading →

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How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Catching Killers

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by college professor Michael Arntfield: * People may demand diversity in their soft drink ads and sitcoms, but true crime stories still overwhelmingly cover white criminals and their white victims. * There … Continue reading →

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Violent Video Games and Automatic Pilot

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Luke Ford

From Dave Grossman’s book On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace: Violent video games have been in existence for several decades now, and many kids who played them years ago are now in … Continue reading →

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Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Luke Ford

00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/ 35:00 Elliott Blatt joins 37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest 41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis 49:00 Maybe … Continue reading →

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Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner writes in 2020: Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts … Continue reading →

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