Over the summer, media outlets across the country fixated on the mounting death toll of young people in inner cities across America. “11 shot, including 3-year-old boy, as Chicago gun violence worsens,” read the large headline of one major U.S. newspaper, while another, the Chicago Tribune, published a painfully graphic photo essay that chronicled the degree to which gun violence in particular had shocked and destabilized entire neighborhoods in 2014.
Inner-city Violence In The Age Of Mass Incarceration
Heather Ann Thompson, The Atlantic: National
Thu, 10/30/2014 - 11:21am
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