Tag: Criminal justice

A Review of Leovy’s Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Review Leovy, J. (2015). Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America. New York: Spiegel & Grau. Black men make up around 6% of America’s population yet they account for about 40% of the country’s annual homicide victims. Jill Leovy’s Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America, documents a number of such murders which continue to

A Review of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

Book Review Goffman, Alice. (2014) On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. University of Chicago Press. What determines the future of a young person? What separates future CEOs from future inmates? Some might say hardwork and upbringing but Alice Goffman begs to differ. In her book On the Run: Fugitive Life in