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This is the only book that is going to tell you all you need to know about one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. A trial that, thirty years on, still bears a striking, and unsettling, resemblance to our current political climate in the era of President Donald Trump. In April 1989, a white woman who came to be known as the 'Central Park jogger' was brutally raped and severely beaten, her body left crumpled in a ravine. Amid the staggering torrent of media coverage and public outcry that ensued, exposing the deep-seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time, five teenagers were quickly apprehended four black and one Hispanic. All five confessed, were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim. Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Sarah Burns
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Language
- English
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Type
- Biography
- Period
- Social Issues
- Attribute
- Politicians
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781529358971
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