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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Ghettoside won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of the ten best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Chicago Tribune; it was also named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews. On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder—a "ghettoside" killing, one young black man slaying another—and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in our cities—and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped.

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Publisher
One World
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9780385530002
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
Homicide and criminal justiceRace and violence in AmericaUrban crime and policing

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