Crimes That Changed Our World : Tragedy, Outrage, and Reform.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Paul H.

Contributor:

Robinson, Sarah M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law--History.

Criminal justice, Administration of--History.

Crime--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Crimes That Changed Our World

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.

Summary:

"Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes “trigger” improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world. The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it. Sometimes reform comes as a society wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something about it. As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as suddenly, do something about it. Every trigger crime that appears in Crimes That Changed Our World highlights a societal problem that America has chosen to deal with, each in a unique way. But what these extraordinary, and sometime unexpected, cases have in common is that all of them describe crimes that changed our world."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Ch01. 1911 Triangle Factory Fire

Ch02. 1915 Chloroform Killer

Ch03. 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping and Dillinger Robberies

Ch04. 1937 Sulfanilamide Crisis

Ch05. 1956 NYC Mad Bomber

Ch06. 1957 Mafia Commission Apalachin Meeting

Ch07. 1962 Harlem Heroin Epidemic

Ch08. 1964 Genovese Murder-Witness Scandal

Ch09. 1965 Watts Riots and Texas Sniper

Ch10. 1967 Calabrese Intimidation

Ch11. 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill and Cuyahoga River Fire

Ch12. 1972. TWA Bombings and Hijackings

Ch13. 1980 Killing of Cari Lightner

Ch14. 1981 Reagan Assassination Attempt

Ch15. 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing

Ch16. 1983 Thurman Beatings

Ch17. 1986 Leicestershire Murders

Ch18. 1989 Schaeffer Stalking Murder

Ch19. 1993 Polly Klaas Abduction

Ch20. 2001 9/11 Attacks

Ch21. 2001 Enron Scandal

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5381-0202-1

OCLC:

1006520803