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You might have missed our non-fiction recommendations. Or maybe you didn’t like them. Or maybe you were just completely baffled by our love-a-thon with Tending Weeds. To compensate you for your suffering, you know, in case their was actual damage done by our off-beat humor and love of old 90s tunes, here are our fiction […]
It’s time to pull yourself away from the desk, the screens, the calls for service. Summer’s here, and it’s time grab the sunscreen and hit the beach because baby’s in Reno with the vitamin D. Books we <3 Orange Is The New Black by Piper Kerman is an inside look at incarceration in a female […]
May 7, 2012 by CrimeCents
The buzz about The Hunger Games among my colleagues was all centered on the fact that it’s a series in which young people murder young people. (Anyone with dry eyes after Rue is killed has no soul.) While Suzanne Collins, the daughter of a Vietnam vet, has said that she believes preventing war requires exposing […]
by David Canter Just out of my BA in psychology, trying to earn a crust by teaching an adult education night class for the WEA in Crewe, I decided I should not use any jargon or unnecessary technical terms. Having prepared enough material for the first five weeks, and faced with an audience old enough […]
April 23, 2012 by CrimeCents
While today’s Earth Day celebrations might draw attention to the relatively new idea of environmental crime, the Day’s roots are inextricably linked with a domestic homicide in the 1970s. Contemporary organizers of Earth Day celebrations distance themselves as much as possible from Ira Einhorn, disavowing even a hint of a past relationship with him. Regardless […]
April 5, 2012 by CrimeCents
Have you ever driven a car, blindfolded, at a hundred and fifty miles an hour? It’s a line uttered by the creepy sociopath, Bruno Anthony, in Strangers On A Train, but it might just as well describe American correctional policy since the 1970s. We are out of control, careening down a self-destructive path, ignoring the […]
March 9, 2012 by crimineepery
Dexter is one of my favorite television shows. Ever. Of all time. My mother first excitedly told me about the show, “A blood-splatter analyst who is a serial killer.” I thought this sounds like an awful premise for a TV show. Little did I know that Dexter would prove to be way more than just […]
I like Dexter. I like the books, I like the show. And I don’t like myself much after having indulged the momentary pleasure in the snappy writing of Dexter’s internal monologue, the soap-opera style plotting, or the world’s most brilliant show intro. The eggs, the orange, and the floss all send a frisson of guilt-ridden […]
March 3, 2012 by CrimeCents
In 1982 James Q. Wilson and George Kelling co-authored a piece for The Atlantic in which they laid the foundation for a new theory of crime. In essence, they argued that fixing broken windows is of critical importance. They wrote, “Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who […]
June 15, 2012 by CrimeDime
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