Crime & Media

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Crime Rates and Crime Fear

Portraying Crime as Out of Control

From: Constructing Danger

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Loyalty

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

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This chapter explores loyalty and more mafia history in Montreal and beyond. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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The Fire This Time

From: Vancouver Vice

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This chapter focuses on the activities of "hustlers," the often-underage male sex workers in the West End. 14 $1.40 Add
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The Justice System and the Media

From: Fundamental Law for Journalists

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Chapter Seven examines the Justice System and the Media. Topics discussed include breaches of Injunction and contempt, publication bans and other restrictions, what to do if you are arrested, the … 18 $1.80 Add
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Chapter 8: The Chambers Collection

Part Three: High Theatre In the Lower Courts

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

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This chapter details the second day of the inquiry and the collection of Gordon Chambers, a key collection of evidence. 18 $1.80 Add
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Crime Stoppers and the Police

The Ideological Construction of Community

From: Constructing Danger

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Framed

From: Vancouver Vice

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This chapter details the creation of a new special police squad to address the rising number of sex workers on the streets of the West End. By merely displacing sex workers, this squad shifted … 12 $1.20 Add
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Royalty

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

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This chapter explores Scoppa’s relationship with his family and more history of Montreal’s Italian mafia, including key events and figures. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Watching Genocide Unfold in Real Time

Gaza through Facebook and Twitter, June 2 — July 23, 2014

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

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This chapter focuses on first three weeks of the Israeli war on Gaza as witnessed from afar through social media in the summer of 2014. The author analyzes it as a production of all the elements … 66 $3.96 Add
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Chapter 9: Authentic Opinions

Part Three: High Theatre In the Lower Courts

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

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This chapter discusses the third day of the trail as experts, Group of Seven members, and other witnesses called to testify. 12 $1.20 Add
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Lawyers and Serial Killers

The Press and Sensationalism

From: Constructing Danger

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The Fix

From: Vancouver Vice

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In this chapter, Chapman explores an apparent suicide that may have been linked to Wayne Harris. 12 $1.20 Add
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The Grudge

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

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This chapter talks about Rénald Joseph Ernest Serge Desjardins and Scoppa’s accounts of him. ; 18 $1.80 Add
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"Sauce"

From: Inside the Montreal Mafia

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This chapter discusses the aftermath of Vito Rizzuto’s return to Canada. ; 17 $1.70 Add
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A Bad Collar

From: Vancouver Vice

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This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … 13 $1.30 Add
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Chapter 10: William Firth MacGregor and the End of the Inquiry

Part Three: High Theatre In the Lower Courts

From: The Great Canadian Art Fraud Case

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In this chapter the inquiry concludes with the testimony of William MacGregor and his unintentional involvement in the fraudulent Group of Seven paintings being sold. 10 $1.00 Add