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... of the historical antagonism between the law and urban queer subcultures. Each writer also saw this antagonism as linked to the cop's privileged place in the conventionalized representations of gay pornography. Rechy maintained that men's cop fetish revealed the ways the law set punishment as the enabling condition...

...Laura T. Murphy Home Box Office's The Wire is a cop show that boldly seeks to explore the tensions in the grand narratives that we brought with us into the twenty-first century—mythologies regarding the safety our state can provide us, the postracial society many thought we had built in the United...

... and treated them right, though an occasional brother on a power trip might use and exploit them. (28-9) Hawes then turns to the state response to these reconfigurations of social rela- tions: Now there was nothing that would shake the L.A. cops more than the sight of people...

..., while their faces took on expressions of importance" (236). And after the funeral/burial, the strikers "came boiling out of the cemetery in a wave. They broke on the road, hurrying along, filling the road, while the cops vainly tried to keep a passage clear for automobiles" (238). Steinbeck...

.... 170 GENRE I may run, but all the time that I am, I’ll be looking for a stick!” At once invoking the figure of a runaway slave and, as will be shown, a kid on the street running from a cop, Jackson’s statement suggests a specific act of creation in which look- ing...

... raped her, then you'll be white girl of the month. If you say it wasn't rape then you'll be called a cop lover and a snitch. Any way you do it I'll have to decide where I stand with you. It is my business. When a lynch-mob mood evolves, the nuances of the situation are burned away...

... science than an informer's phone calls, a beat cops' reports or the methods of torture resemble a metaphysical discourse. As a general rule, we can distinguish two cases: the professional murder, in which the police know very quickly who is guilty, more or less; and the sexual murder, in which...

... 15 , 2014 . www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29195683 . Bergman Kristin . 2011 . “The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millenium: Neoromantic Tendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural.” In Scandinavian Crime Fiction , edited by Nestingen Andrew Arvas Paula , 34 – 45 . Cardiff...

... , 2011 . Trubetzkoy N. S. Principles of Phonology , trans. Baltaxe Christine . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1969 . Wegner Phillip , “The Beat Cops of History; or, The Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics,” Arizona Quarterly , 66 ( 2010 ): 149...

... zealous spy has adopted the initial of the book of the Ecclesiastes, which explains his purpose. In the struggle that opposes — in more than seven hundred pages — an outlaw with innumerable borrowed identities and a nameless cop — a less allegorical version of the struggle...

... than any criminologist, judge, cop, or outsider, have the credibility of elves. In this sense prison writing's dead wood. The only other way to look at prison writing is as a way of expression. And, frankly, who wants to hear about loneliness, hopelessness, despair, loss...

.... It reinforces the role of North Ameri- can/global ideology constructed for/by the US. That is the position of world cop, a title which legitimates the US's exercise of violence, which in turn re-authorizes its role as world cop, which in turn reauthorizes its use of violence. Many '90s Hollywood...

.... . 2002c. “Trace of a Tale: C. D. Wright in Conversation with Bob Holman.” Poets and Writers 30 (3): 12 – 21. . 2005. Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil. Port Townsend, WA: Cop- per Canyon. . (2003) 2007. One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon...

... and Women's Prisons in the Netherlands.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 3 . 1 ( Feb. 1997 ): 7 - 32 . Davis Barbara . Precious Angels . New York : Penguin Putnam , 1999 . Derschowitz Alan M. The Abuse Excuse and Other Cop-Outs, Sob Stories...

... libraries in women's facilities, shelves of Harlequin romances, self-help books, "true crime" books, and "Cops & Crime" novels make it difficult to imag- ine prisoners reading Marx, Fanon, or Angela Davis. Indeed, incarcerated women are far more likely to circulate sensational true crime books than...

... stood on the tier and stared off through the mesh. Then I saw it. As in the dream, when was it? That dream was of this place. Across from where I stood, a cupola jutted out from the old brick of the cell- house wall. The cupola from my haunting dream, capped in ghostly faded cop- per...

..., including cop-shows, game-shows, soap-operas, sitcoms, movies-of-the-week, and even commercials (McHale). From our pres- ent perspective, however, the televisuality of Vineland appears less a matter of supine complicity with mass culture than of a certain kind of historicity, or even a certain method...

... the crime fiction convention of the “clean cop” in a new setting: having as a young man killed a drug dealer, Jitpleecheep has been ordered by his abbot to “mend [his] karma” by serving as an honest detective in the notoriously corrupt Bangkok police. John Burdett's Sonchai Jitpleecheep series...

... of a Mexican, would qualify automatically as a trouble-maker; consorting with a known trou- blemaker like Chavez, I became a mere undesirable. The cop looked me over long enough to let me know he had his eye on me" (SSP, 7). As this revision suggests, Matthiessen's eye on that Sunday was turned...

... have some knowledge of detection techniques, such as dusting for fingerprints, wiretaps, interrogation of suspects (good-cop/bad-cop techniques, polygraphs), etc. As a result we can reconstruct causal sequences from very partial cues: from seeing one man questioning another in a certain way...