From CJR, secrets of the city: What The Wire reveals about urban journalism. The Wire and the real Baltimore: What the hit television drama tells us about the city Kurt Schmoke governed and America's war on drugs. From Boston Review, words behind bars: Do prisoners have a right to read what they want? Criminals with badges: Paul Craig Roberts on how the police create crimes. An exhausting new crime: What thieves are stealing from today's cars. From New York, a cover story on the criminal record: Once again, it was a down year for crime in New York — but that doesn't mean we're some sort of post-crime Utopia just quite yet. A review of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh (and more and more).
