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    Evidence of things seen : true crime in an era of reckoning / edited by Sarah Weinman ; [with an introduction by Rabia Chaudry].
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    New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
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  • Crime.
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  • Crime -- Case studies.
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  • True crime stories -- Social aspects.
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  • Crime and the press -- Social aspects.
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    9780063323926 (hardcover) :
    0063323923 (hardcover)
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    xxiii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Part I: What we reckon with. A brutal lynching. An indifferent police force. A 34-year wait for justice / by Wesley Lowery -- The short life of Toyin Salau and a legacy still at work / by Samantha Schuyler -- "No choice but to do it" : why women go to prison / by Justin van der Leun -- The golden age of white-collar crime / by Michael Hobbes -- Picturesque California conceals a crisis of missing indigenous women / by Brandi Morin -- How the Atlanta spa shootings-- the victims, the survivors-- tell a story of America / by May Jeong -- Part II: The true crime stories we tell. Who owns Amanda Knox? / by Amanda Knox -- Tie a tourniquet on your heart : revisiting Edna Buchanan, America's greatest police reporter / by Diana Moskovitz -- The true crime junkies and the curious case of a missing husband / by RF Jurjevics -- Has reality caught up to the "murder police"? / by Lara Bazelon -- Part III: Shards of justice. Will you ever change? / by Amelia Schonbek -- The prisoner-run radio station that's reaching men on Death Row / by Keri Blakinger -- To the son of the victim / by Sophie Haigney -- Three bodies in Texas / by Mallika Rao.
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    "True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's systemic harms and inequalities. And in doing so, it reveals how the genre of true crime can be a catalyst for social change. These works combine brilliant storytelling with incisive cultural examinations--and challenge each of us to ask what justice should look like"--
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