ENGL 324 Lecture Notes - Black Market, Existentialism, Richard Slotkin
3 Dec 2012
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18th amendment, uniform crime reporting manual; j edgar hoover, report on the cause of crime (both those are documents trying to plot crime statistically), gunfighter nation; richard slotkin, Delinquency areas; clifford shaw (block by block maps of chicago plotting crime) First efforts to study crime in a scientific way. Policing is more professional, the rise of the hb novel. Finish the book, read the big sleep. Personville = thinly disguised version of butte, montana (5k to kill a man, but he says no) Society is corrupt. the continental op is motivated by the fact that he"s pissed about the attempts to assassinate him and what they mean for his role in society. I think that he does it out of spite, and the fact that he"s disenchanted with how the town"s set up. Representation of labor: there really isn"t any labor that"s not criminal. everyone in the novel is engaged in some sort of criminal enterprise.
