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Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971 /

"In 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after investigations revealed that former Chicago police commander Jon Burge tortured numerous suspects in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. But claims of police torture h...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dale, Elizabeth (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2016.
[Place of publication not identified] : 2016.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : Police torture in Chicago before Jon Burge
  • Police torture in Chicago, 1871-1936
  • Murder in black and white
  • On trial
  • Appeal
  • Patterns and practice, 1936-1971
  • The burden of proof.