Fans of true crime will praise this in-depth account of a notorious organized-crime case." - Library Journal, Starred Review "Sewell sheds new light on a high-profile case in this exciting and superbly told history." -Booklist Retired FBI Special Agent Mark Sewell was a rookie in 1997 when he was assigned to investigate mafia associate Steve Kaplan and his enormously successful Atlanta strip club; the largest single money maker for the Gambino Crime Family. Accompanied by a small team of investigators, the hand-picked unit followed a money trail, that wound up implicating a Gambino Captain, police officers, strippers, and many of the most recognized professional athletes in America. The subsequent 2001 trial was covered nationally by the leading media outlets, from television newscasts to late night talk shows and nationally published magazines pushing new, sensational headlines daily. Sewell was at the center of the storm that dominated media headlines in the summer of 2001 and provides a never-before seen inside view of the FBI’s most successful financial win against an organized crime family in the agency’s history.
Crime is rampant; the City cries in pain. The call is made for a protector, a heroare you that hero? Do you feel the burning urge to fight evilbut maybe youre not quite sure where to start? Do I need a stickhow about a mask? Must I develop 6-pack abs before heading off into the night? What will the neighbours think? Well, youve had your entire life to be normal, and what did that get you? Probably not muchor maybe it has; good for you! Its time to get positive, its time to get crazy; its time to impose your glorious, indomitable will upon the world at large. So dont plod through another day at your boring, lame-ass job, surrounded by coworkers that you hate, with a boss you want to shove face-first into a filthy toilet bowl. Put on your ski mask and grab the old baseball batits time to go bash some scum! Justice! Brutality! Ultra-violence! Heed the call!!! {Disclaimer: Dont actually heed the call, or youll end up dead or imprisoned. Reality checksorry.}
The city reels under a wave of violent crimewhat would you do? If youre like Stabman, you would stand up and oppose it. And if youre really like Stabman, you would probably go about it all wrong, especially at first. Armed with nothing more than mental imbalance and an unquenchable thirst for Justice, Stabman is a one-man wrecking ball aimed at the dark heart of criminal scum across the land. Understanding and rehabilitation are not words in his vocabulary, but ultra-violence most certainly is. Dark, violent, and surprisingly funny in places, this is a journey into the mind of someone psychotic enough to take the fight to scum on their own terms, only at a level they cannot comprehend. Join Stabmanif you dareas he bungles and murders his way to full hero status. This isnt your typical superhero storynot recommended for timid readers.
We live in a time of profound social change, propelled by the growing diversity of our nation, our communities, and the world at large. Many of these changes challenge long-established norms and practices in our society. The purpose of this monograph, the 6th in the Fielding Monograph Series, is to document some of these changes and their social response, based on six in-depth studies conducted by graduates from Fielding's doctoral program in Educational Leadership for Change.* Dr. Monique Morris investigates the intersecting factors that contribute to the over-representation of youth of color, including Black girls, in the juvenile justice system. Her phenomenological study found that Black girls often experience a history of exclusionary discipline and poor relationships with schools, which is exacerbated by the absence of a learning environment in confinement. This further constricts their ability to build positive relationships with teachers and each other. * Dr. Mark Jordan turns our attention to the experiences of sexual minority youth confronting heterosexism and homophobia. He argues that sexual minority youth are an at-risk population because of the hostile environments they face in school, their community, or even at home. His study investigated their resilience, and found that interpersonal relationships were key to maintaining that resilience. * Dr. Charissa Cordon investigates the growing importance of self-determined learning or heutagogy in high-pressure workplaces. She focuses her research on self-determined learning among nurses in the critical environment of a quaternary cancer institution, and found that the most frequent factor that either enabled or constrained nurses from engaging in heutagogy was time. * Dr. Leslie Chang addresses another phenomenon in our modern society: the ongoing disengagement and marginalization of Latino parents in urban schools. Educational research highlights the importance of parent engagement; however, the voices and engagement of white parents as partners and leaders continues to prevail in schools. Her study showed that careful attention from school leaders allowed Latino parents to develop their own initiatives, empowering them to organize and impact change. * Dr. Lucinda Jacobs Garthwaite looks at social change from a systems perspective. Her study explored the question: Is it possible for personal practices to support emancipatory systems change, or do they rather perturb a system to emancipatory change? In either case, what are those practices? Her phenomenological study, based on conversations with 30 participants, uncovered some surprising insights on the issue. * Finally, Dr. Arega Yirdaw takes us outside North America, specifically to the declining educational standards in private institutions in Ethiopia. He wonders whether factors of leadership and governance either contribute to or prevent this decline. His results indicate that these institutions are continuously challenged to balance government requirements and stakeholder demands in an environment fraught with underfunding, scarcity of qualified instructors, poor infrastructure, poorly qualified students, and a biased regulatory environment.Taken together, the contributions to this publication show that while social change in our modern world is fraught with severe challenges, the outcome of these studies shows that there are also promising seeds of hope.
Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a “hot-blooded,” spur-of-the-moment crime of passion, as domestic homicide is commonly viewed, but a cold-blooded, carefully planned and methodically executed form of “erasure.” These crimes are often committed by men with no criminal record or history of violence whatsoever, men leading functional and often successful lives until the moment they kill the women, and sometimes children, they claimed to love. A surprising number go on to kill a second or even third wife or girlfriend, often in exactly the same way. In more than fifty chilling case studies, Marilee Strong examines the strange and complex psychology that drives these killers—from the murder a century ago that inspired the novel An American Tragedy to Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, Jeffrey MacDonald, Ira Einhorn, Charles Stuart, Robert Durst, Michael White, Barton Corbin, and many others. Erased also looks at how these men manipulate the legal system and exploit loopholes in missing persons procedures and death investigation, exposing how easy it can be to get away with murder.
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