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Violence We Can’t Refuse
Why do we excuse violence on mafia-based shows like The Sopranos? All criminals, it seems, are not the same
Issue 5. Crime
Villains and Heroes
How the media and the American public value narrative over news
Little Monsters
If you have no inclination to enjoy the recent tawdry crop of life-based entertainment, you can still return again and again to such inadvertent documentaries as the Bulger tapes
The Mobster in the Mirror
Even before the recent controversy surrounding The Sopranos, Italian Americans have protested the gangster image
A Crime Without a Criminal
A protester confronts the consequences of his actions, the justice of his cause and the physical and emotional costs of his incarceration
The Allure of Alcatraz
Marketing the prison experience makes us all desire to be behind bars
Juror No. 8
No, it's not a horror movie. Just fodder for my next novel
The Soul of Andy Sipowicz
NYPD Blue, as a long-running TV series, has had the time to do what no other medium can accomplish: show Andy Sipowicz acquiring a soul
The Moratorium Trap
The momentum behind the moratorium movement marks the biggest success death penalty opponents have witnessed in years. Hell, it's the only success. But should abolitionists support what amounts to only partial victory?