Beyond the usual beating : the Jon Burge Police torture scandal and social movements for police accountability in Chicago /

Beyond the usual beating : the Jon Burge Police torture scandal and social movements for police accountability in Chicago /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baer, Andrew S., author.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations, map.
Language:	English
Series:	Historical studies of urban America Historical studies of urban America.
Subject:	Burge, Jon. Burge, Jon. Police brutality -- Illinois -- Chicago. Torture -- Illinois -- Chicago. Police brutality. Torture. Illinois -- Chicago.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12284183

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ISBN:	022670050X 9780226700502 9780226700472 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed on March 3, 2021).
Summary:	"Beyond the Usual Beating reveals that though the Burge scandal underscores the relationship between personal bigotry and structural racism in the criminal justice system, it also shows how ordinary people held perpetrators accountable in the face of intransigent local power."
Other form:	Print version: Baer, Andrew S. Beyond the usual beating. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020 9780226700472

Table of Contents:

A southeast side story
"They wanted to be choirboys"
"They believed they were at war"
"Before our communities become virtual armed camps"
"Third-world torture-Chicago style
The Chicago torture justice movement.