Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

4.07/5 (15894 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder--one young black man slaying another--and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. 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 murder in America--why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.

Format:

Pages:: 366 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:

Edition:: 1

Language:

ISBN10:: 0385529988

ISBN13:: 9780385529983

kindle Asin:: B0062OCN4E

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

4.07/5 (15894 ratings)

Read Download

On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder--one young black man slaying another--and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. 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 murder in America--why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.

Format:

Pages:: 366 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:

Edition:: 1

Language:

ISBN10:: 0385529988

ISBN13:: 9780385529983

kindle Asin:: B0062OCN4E

More Books

The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker #2)

Susan Rowland

Making Sense

Sam Harris

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Elijah Anderson

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Preet Bharara

The Dead Tell Lies

J.F. Kirwan

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

Scott Carney

Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform

John F. Pfaff

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey