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This book analyzes the everyday actions of ordinary people in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights.

Tragedy in Aurora is the story of Jessica Ghawi, who was murdered in a public mass shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012. The book argues that America is at a crossroads of cultural definition. It examines America's culture war over gun control.

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The arc of Tragedy in Aurora is the story of Jessica (Jessi) Ghawi, who was murdered in a public mass shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012. Along that arc the book argues that America is at a crossroads of cultural definition. It examines America's culture war over gun control.

Provides a disturbing account of what many consider the next Mafia—Latino crime gangs. Focusing on the Los Angeles based Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street Gang, and the Chicago-based Latin Kings, this describes how neighbourhood gangs evolved into extremely brutal, sophisticated criminal enterprises and how local and federal authorities have struggled to suppress them. As it makes clear, the problem of transnational Latino gangs inv...

Newtown, Connecticut. Aurora, Colorado. Both have entered our collective memory as sites of unimaginable heartbreak and mass slaughter perpetrated by lone gunmen. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., are dealing with the painful, everyday reality of record rates of gun-related deaths. By any account, gun violence in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. A widely respected activist and policy analyst-as well as ...

Tom Diaz's The Last Gun was first published in hardcover shortly after the tragic Newtown massacre. Major media outlets, including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Democracy Now, NPR, and CNBC, rushed to contact Diaz, the widely respected gun control advocate, for his views on what Americans could do to bring an end to this epidemic of gun violence. As he told them, America is by far the most armed nation in the world, and it has the deaths ...