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Good cop/Bad cop

From Law and Contemporary Problems, a special issue on the impact of behavioral genetics on the criminal law. From the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, J.C. Oleson (ODU): King of Killers: The Criminological Theories of Hannibal Lecter (and part 2 and part 3); Adam Dobrin (FAU): Professional and Community Oriented Policing: The Mayberry Model; Dawn K. Cecil (USF): Doing Time in “Camp Cupcake”: Lessons Learned from Newspaper Accounts of Martha Stewart’s Incarceration; Josh Nisker on “Only God Can Judge Me”: Tupac Shakur, the Legal System, and Lyrical Subversion; a review of Errors of Justice by Brian Forst; a review of The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society by David Garland; a review of Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason by Biko Agozino; and a review of Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mass Media and the Cycle of Police Reform by Jarret S. Lovell. The white-collar criminal as thug: An interview with Terry L. Leap, author of Dishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime. From Smithsonian, here’s a brief history of Scotland Yard: Investigating London's famous police force and some of its most infamous cases; and the Pinkerton Detective Agency chased down some of America's most notorious criminals—but could it capture Jesse James?