Crimes of the century
Subtitle: from Leopold & Loeb to O.J. Simpson
By: Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen.
Contributors: Bienen, Leigh B.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Trials -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leopold and Loeb (1924) and the cause of crime; title: Scottsboro (1931) and racial injustice; title: Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), public outrage, and criminal justice; title: Alger Hiss (1948), the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the courts; title: O.J. Simpson (1994) : can the rich buy reasonable doubt?