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010			_z 2016005471
020			_a9781609092009
020			_a1609092007
020			_z9780875807393 (hardback)
020			_z0875807399
035			_a(OCoLC)950052963
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050	0	0	_aHV8148.C4 _b.D35 2016
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100	1		_aDale, Elizabeth, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPattern and practice _h[electronic resource] : _bpolice torture in Chicago, 1871-1972 / _cElizabeth Dale.
260			_aDeKalb : _bNorthern Illinois University Press, _c2016. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 have even deeper roots in Chicago. In the late 19th century, suspects maintained that Chicago police officers put them in sweatboxes or held them incommunicado until they confessed to crimes they had not committed. In the first decades of the 20th century, suspects and witnesses stated that they admitted guilt only because Chicago officers beat them, threatened them, and subjected them to "sweatbox methods." Those claims continued into the 1960s. In Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971, Elizabeth Dale uncovers the lost history of police torture in Chicago between the Chicago Fire and 1971, tracing the types of torture claims made in cases across that period. To show why the criminal justice system failed to adequately deal with many of those allegations of police torture, Dale examines one case in particular, the 1938 trial of Robert Nixon for murder. Nixon's case is famous for being the basis for the novel Native Son, by Richard Wright. Dale considers the part of Nixon's account that Wright left out of his story: Nixon's claims that he confessed after being strung up by his wrists and beaten and the legal system's treatment of those claims. This original study will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of criminal justice, and general readers interested in Midwest history, criminal cases, and the topic of police torture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aTorture _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolice misconduct _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolice brutality _zIllinois _zChicago _xHistory.
650		7	_aTRUE CRIME / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). _2bisacsh
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/45830/
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 US Regional Studies, Midwest
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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