A searing examination of the long history of police misconduct and political corruption in Chicago that produced the city's current racial reckoning\nChicago faces a racial reckoning. For over 50 years, Chicago Mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley were at the helm of a law-and-order dynasty that disadvantaged predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods and covered up heinous crimes against Black men. During his 1980-2012 tenure as State's Attorney and Mayor, Richard M. Daley (son of Richard J. Daley) led a law enforcement bureaucracy which permitted police detective John Burge to supervise the torture of over 100 Black men on Chicago's South and West Sides. Misguided policies on "gangs, guns, and drugs," support for a racialized code of silence and police misconduct, and a lack of meaningful punishment, have ensured that these leaders' effects on Chicago are still sorely felt.\nIn this book, John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, and Daniel Herda confront the complicated history of race, politics, and policing in Chicago to explain how crime works from the top-down through urban political machines and the elite figures who dominate them. The authors argue that the Daleys' law enforcement system worked largely to benefit and protect White residential areas and business districts while excluding Black and Brown Chicagoans and concentrating them in highly segregated neighborhoods. The stark contradiction between the promise "to serve and protect" and the realities of hyper-segregation and mass incarceration created widespread cynicism about policing that remains one of the most persistent problems of contemporary Chicago law enforcement.\nBy holding a sociological lens up to the history of this quintessential American city, Chicago's Reckoning reveals new insights into the politics of crime and how, until we come to terms with our history and the racial and economic divisions it created, these dynamics will continue to shape our national life.

Chicago's Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City

Politics & Social Sciences

McCarthy, Bill

Hagan, John

Herda, Daniel

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness (Cambridge Studies in Criminology)

This field study features intensive personal interviews of more than four hundred young people who have left home and school and are living on the streets of Toronto and Vancouver. The study examines why youth take to the streets, their struggles to survive there, their victimization and involvement in crime, their associations with other street youth, especially within "street families," their contacts with the police, and their efforts to rejoin conventional society. Major theories of youth crime are analyzed and reappraised in the context of a new social capital theory of crime.

Cambridge University Press

In the title poem of this poetry collection, Bill McCarthy uses the "fall risk" bracelet he received while hospitalized a decade ago to remind himself, and his readers, that we're all at risk of falling-stumbling in a relationship, overlooking a personal blind spot, or facing the consequences of a poor decision. While not shying away from life's complexities, the poems in Fall Risk, through thoughtful observations of the natural world and human society, chronicle a life in search of meaning.

Fall Risk: poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Grayson Books

Provides practical instruction in creating database applications with Java, SQL, and JDBC. Shows how to design and build Internet-capable client/server systems. Includes thorough coverage of SQL, with key points illustrated by helpful diagrams. Explains how to use Java and SQL with popular database management systems, such as Microsoft Access. Demonstrates how to handle tricky issues such as views, multiuser access, database security, and database integrity. Teaches how to use Java's JDBC classes and the JDBC-ODBC bridge.

Visual Developer SQL Database Programming with Java: Creating Fast, Efficient Database Applications for the Web

Computers & Technology

McCarty, Bill

Programming Languages

Coriolis Group

New Zealand has one of the highest numbers of boats per head of population in the world. This is a profile of fifty men and their boats. From the boy with his P-class to the enthusiast restoring a classic steamboat, all are covered here.

Blokes & Boats

Moorhead, Brian

HarperCollins New Zealand

Official Catholic Teachings on the Mother of God from the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church 
This beautiful new book by Fr. Bill McCarthy, MSA (The Our Father), contains all of the important Church documents since Vatican II that talk about the Blessed Mother and her role in the Church today. This book also gathers seventy of Pope John Paul IIs weekly messages regarding the Blessed Mother over the past several years, showing how Mary is as important now as ever before in the Church.

Mary in the Church Today

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

St. Andrews Productions

The Holy Spirit in the Writings of Pope John Paul II

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