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Crimes and trials of the century

Chermak, Steven (Ed.)

Crimes and trials of the century edited by Steven Chermak and Frankie Y. Bailey. - USA : Greenwood Press, 2007. - 340 p.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The Black Sox Scandal: More than a Story of "Eight Men Out" / Jason R. Ingram
Chapter 2. The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial: Judging Anarchy / Lisa N. Sacco
Chapter 3. Alphonse Capone: The Man Behind The Legend / Joseph Gregory Deleeuw
Chapter 4. The Tragedy of Arbuckle, "Prince of Whales" / Matthew Pate
Chapter 5. The Incomprehensible Crime of Leopold and Loeb: "Just an Experiment" / Diana Proper
Chapter 6.Fundamental Divides: The Trial of John Scopes / Ernest L. Nickels
Chapter 7. Bonnie and Clyde: A "Mad, Dizzy Whirl" / Leana Allen Bouffard
Chapter 8. The Scottsboro Boys Trials: Black Men as "Racial Scapegoats" / James R. Acker, Elizabeth K. Brown, and Christine M. Englebrecht
Chapter 9. The Lindbergh Baby Murder Case: A Crime of the Century / Kelly Wolf
Chapter 10. Alger Hiss: No Certain Verdict / Matthew Pate
Chapter 11. Worse than Murder: The Rosenberg-Sobell Atom Spy Affair / Ernest L. Nickels
Chapter 12. The Sam Sheppard Case: Do Three Trials Equal Justice? / Kathy Warnes
Chapter 13. The Emmett Till Murder: The Civil Rights Movement Begins / Marcella Glodek Bush
Chapter 14. "Mississippi Burning" / Shani P. Gray
Chapter 15. The Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: The Turning Point of the Civil Rights Movement / Marcella Glodek Bush
Chapter 16. Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca Murders: A Family Portrait / Marie Balfour
Chapter 17. The Ageless Anguish of Kent State / Kathy Warnes
Chapter 18. The Attica Trials: A Thirty-year Pursuit of Justice /
Sidney L. Harring and George W. Dowdall Table of Contents:
Book consists of two volumes.

9780313341106


Administration of Criminal justice--United States--Cases, History
Trials (Political Crimes and Offenses)--United States.

345.7302 / CHE/CRI

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