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What actually goes on in a courtroom when the defendant is a gang member

What actually goes on in a courtroom when the defendant is a gang member

Police, the press, and the public all see the kind of violence that besets the inner city today as irrational and basically about turf, revenge, or drugs. Renowned criminologist and expert on gangs, John Hagedorn here tells a very different and little-known story centered on the dramatic rise and fall of a Mafia-like Latino organization in Chicago called "Spanish Growth & Development." Hagedorn's main informant is 'Sal Martino, ' an Italian Ma...

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John M. Hagedorn is associate professor of criminal justice and senior research fellow at Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of Gangs in the Global City, co-editor of Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs, and Gender, and author of the highly influential People and Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City.MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is professor of history at the University o...

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