Random House New Releases - Law - Discrimination

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

2013-01-08T00:30:00-05:00

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Vintage | True Crime - Murder; Law - Discrimination; Law - Ethics | $16.00 | 978-0-307-94854-0 (0-307-94854-4)

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner, the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row.

In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.

Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt's battle to save Elmore's life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. Moving, enraging, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

2012-02-21T00:30:00-05:00

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Hardcover, 320 pages | Knopf | True Crime - Murder; Law - Discrimination; Law - Ethics | $26.95 | 978-0-307-70021-6 (0-307-70021-6)

The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.

In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windows, but barely ninety days after the victim’s body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.

Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. After attending the University of Texas School of Law, Holt was eager to help the disenfranchised and voiceless; she herself had been a childhood victim of abuse. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmore’s case—plagued by incompetent court-appointed defense attorneys, a virulent prosecution, and both misplaced and contaminated evidence—reeked of injustice. It was the cause of a lifetime for the spirited, hardworking lawyer. Holt would spend more than a decade fighting on Elmore’s behalf.

With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follows Holt’s battle to save Elmore’s life and shows us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. He reviews police work, evidence gathering, jury selection, work of court-appointed lawyers, latitude of judges, iniquities in the law, prison informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains in our justice system are vividly revealed.

Moving, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation’s ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

2012-02-21T00:30:00-05:00

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

eBook, 320 pages | Vintage | True Crime - Murder; Law - Discrimination; Law - Ethics | $11.99 | 978-0-307-95736-8 (0-307-95736-5)

Queer (In)Justice by Kay Whitlock

2012-01-24T00:30:00-05:00

Queer (In)Justice The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Beacon Press | Social Science - Gender Studies; Social Science - Criminology; Law - Discrimination | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-5115-3 (0-8070-5115-2)

Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency

A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes—like “gleeful gay killers,” “lethal lesbians,” “disease spreaders,” and “deceptive gender benders”—to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets to the bench to behind prison bars, they prove that the policing of sex and gender both bolsters and reinforces racial and gender inequalities.

Birth of a Nation'hood by Toni Morrison

1997-02-04T00:30:00-05:00

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison

Trade Paperback, 448 pages | Pantheon | Law - Essays; Law - Discrimination | $19.00 | 978-0-679-75893-8 (0-679-75893-3)

Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.

As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through twelve powerful essays that have been written especially for this book by distinguished intellectuals--black and white, male and female. Together these keen analyses of a defining American moment cast a chilling gaze on the script and spectacle of the insidious tensions that rend our society, even as they ponder the proper historical, cultural, political, legal, psychological, and linguistic ramifications of the affair.

With contributions by:
Toni Morrison, George Lipsitz, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., with Aderson Bellegarde Francois and Linda Y. Yueh, Nikol G. Alexander and Drucilla Cornell, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ishmael Reed, Leola Johnson and David Roediger, Andrew Ross, Patricia J. Williams, Ann duCille, Armond White, Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Random House New Releases - Law - Discrimination

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone WrongWritten by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone WrongWritten by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone WrongWritten by Raymond Bonner

Queer (In)Justice by Kay Whitlock

Queer (In)Justice The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United StatesWritten by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock

Birth of a Nation'hood by Toni Morrison

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson CaseWritten by Toni Morrison

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Anatomy of Injustice A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Written by Raymond Bonner

Queer (In)Justice The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock

Birth of a Nation'hood Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison