Recent Scholarship
Crime and Violence
Briley, Ron, “The Legend of Sacco and Vanzetti: Keeping the Story Alive in Literature, Song, and Film,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 101–22.
Chambers, Stephen, “‘Neither Justice nor Mercy’: Public and Private Executions in Rhode Island, 1832–1833,” New England Quarterly, 82 (Sept. 2009), 430–51.
Foley, William E., “Murder on the Santa Fe Trail,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 90–105.
George, Joseph, Jr., “The Conspiracy Trial’s ‘Suppressed Testimony’: An Attempt to Implicate Jefferson Davis in Lincoln’s Assassination,” Lincoln Herald, 111 (Summer 2009), 94–127.
George, Tita, and Elizabeth Griffith, “Homicide in and around Public Housing: Is Public Housing a Hotbed, a Magnet, or a Generator of Violence for the Surrounding Community?,” Social Problems, 56 (Aug. 2009), 474–93.
Hostutler, Jason L., “Kids, Cops, and Beboppers: Milwaukee’s Post-WWII Battle with Juvenile Delinquency,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 93 (Autumn 2009), 14–27. Heavily illustrated.
Hunnicutt, Gwen, and Kristy Humble Andrews, “Tragic Narratives in Popular Culture: Depictions of Homicide in Rap Music,” Sociological Forum, 24 (Sept. 2009), 611–30.
Luconi, Stefano, “Tampa’s 1910 Lynching: The Italian-American Perspective and Its Implications,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2009), 30–53.
Ousey, Graham C., and Charis E. Kubrin, “Exploring the Connection between Immigration and Violent Crime Rates in U.S. Cities, 1989–2000,” Social Problems, 56 (Aug. 2009), 447–73.
Rivers, Patrick Lynn, “Race, Sex, and Violence and the Problem of Agency in North Carolina, 1889–1903,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 28 (July 2009), 34–49.
Simmons, LaKisha Michelle, “‘Justice Mocked’: Violence and Accountability in New Orleans,” American Quarterly, 61 (Sept. 2009), 477–98.
Takahiro, Namiko, “19 seiki Ruijiana no hanzai to keibatsu” (Crimes and punishments in 19th-century Louisiana: The outcome of the failure of the Livingstone Code), Amerikashi Hyoron (Kyoto), 26 (2008), 1–25. In Japanese.
Anderson, Susan Willoughby, “The Past on Trial: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, Civil Rights Memory, and the Remaking of Birmingham” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3331038.
Dilts, Andrew T., “Excess Punishment: State, Citizens, and Felon Disenfranchisement” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338337.
Dukes, John Anthony, Sr, “The Effect of Furman v. Georgia on State Death Penalty Legislation” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3339058.
Koenigsberg, Monica, “Mediated Images of Crime and Justice: A Grounded Theory Methodology Examination of One Strand of Discourse” (Sam Houston State University, 2008). Order No. DA3341253.
McLeod, Allegra M., “Exporting U.S. Criminal Justice: Crime, Development, and Empire after the Cold War” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3343958.
Mikkelsen, Vincent, “Coming from Battle to Face a War: The Lynching of Black Soldiers in the World War I Era” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3336077.
Porter, Jeremy Reed, “The Spatial Demography of Reported Crime: An Examination of Urban-Rural Crime Articulation and Associated Spatio-Temporal Diffusion Processes, U.S. 1990–2000” (Mississippi State University, 2008). Order No. DA3331295.
Shields, Christopher A., “An Analysis of Prosecutorial and Defense Strategies in Federal Terrorism Trials from 1980 to 2004” (University of Arkansas, 2008). Order No. DA3341235.
Bakken, Gordon Morris, and Brenda Farrington, Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xiv, 272 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1361-6.)
Cox, Stephen, The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 222 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-300-12419-4.)
Crowl, Thomas, Murder of a Journalist: The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2009. xiv, 210 pp. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-60635-002-7.)
Greiner, Bernd, War without Fronts: The usa in Vietnam. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x, 518 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-15451-1.) Originally published in German in 2007.
Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xii, 339 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4052-0.)
Prince, Stephen, Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xii, 388 pp. Cloth, $87.50, isbn 978-0-231-14870-2. Paper, $27.50, isbn 978-0-231-14871-9.)
Schoenbachler, Matthew G., Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xii, 371 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2566-4.)
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