Joe Domanick

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Joe Domanick
Born (1943-02-10) February 10, 1943 (age 81)
Alma mater University of Southern California
Columbia University
Hunter College
Notable workBlue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing

Joe Domanick is an American investigative journalist and historian. The author of four books focused on criminal justice, corruption and reform, he writes about California culture, politics, and policing. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Domanick was the associate director of the Center on the Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, senior fellow at USC's Institute for Justice and Journalism, [5] and professor at the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Communication. [6]

His book To Protect and To Serve won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book. [7] Blue was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for current interest in 2015. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Horowitz, Mark (August 3, 2015). "Joe Domanick's 'Blue' Examines the L.A.P.D." The New York Times. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  2. ↑ Barnhart, Bill (October 8, 1989). "Exploits of ZZZZ and the best scam artist in America stranger than fiction". Chicago Tribune . p. 3. ProQuest   282689389 . Retrieved December 25, 2024– via ProQuest.
  3. ↑ Krisberg, Barry (April 11, 2004). "When California got tough on crime". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Scott J. (January 1, 1995). "The L.A. Police Department vs. the People". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  5. ↑ Perry, Tony (August 13, 2015). "Review: 'Blue' delivers arresting portrait of L.A.'s policing problems". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  6. ↑ Leduff, Charlie (January 14, 2003). "Trading Front-Row Seat for Center Ring, TV Reporter Begins Los Angeles Police Job". The New York Times . Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  7. ↑ Tabor, Mary B.W. (April 28, 1995). "Mystery Writers Name Spillane a Grand Master". The New York Times. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 2015 | Bookreporter.com". www.bookreporter.com. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Faking It in America: Barry Minkow and the Great Zzzz Best Scam by Joe Domanick". Publishers Weekly . November 1, 1989. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  10. ↑ "To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams by Joe Domanick". Publishers Weekly . October 31, 1994. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  11. ↑ Matlin J. Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State. Journal of American Studies. 2006;40(2):423-424. doi:10.1017/S0021875806321809
  12. ↑ "Blue". Kirkus Reviews . June 27, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
  13. ↑ Horan, Dan (August 25, 2015). "Guarding the City of Angels". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved December 25, 2024.


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