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Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

It’s no wonder that America’s most-watched television dramas draw their material from the country’s chronic “war on crime.” Reduced to its most sensational elements, the criminal justice system is portrayed in melodramas featuring violence, heartbreak and retribution. But beyond the snarling punks and streetwise cops of fiction are far more prosaic — and yet far more suspenseful — stories of ordinary people struggling to free themselves of poverty, addiction and the legacies of broken families, from The Boys of Baraka to Love & Diane.

Image from The Judge and the General (POV 2008)

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