The case in print

The case in print
Topic Started: Oct 26 2009, 08:03 PM (230 Views)
Quasimodo	Oct 26 2009, 08:03 PM Post #1
Posts: 4,821 Group: Tier1 Member #17 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	A few (almost new) additional books out... A textbook (revised in April 2008): http://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Profiling-Third-Introduction-Behavioral/dp/0123741009/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256604157&sr=1-37 Criminal Profiling, Third Edition: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis (Hardcover) ~ Brent E. Turvey (Author) The case is extensively covered starting on p. 411 (find the menu in the left-hand collumn; scroll down to "Search inside this book", and enter the words, "Duke lacrosse"; then click on p. 411) The discussion of the case is very good. ---------------------- The Associate: A Novel by John Grisham p. 50 "For a moment he settled on the three Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of raping a stripper..." -------------------------------- Related, but don't know if it mentions the case : Blind Justice (Kindle Edition) by Craig B. Brown (Author) http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Justice/dp/B002SN9G20/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256604020&sr=1-27 Product Description Judge Craig Brown was a fixture in the Durham, North Carolina, criminal justice system for most of his adult life. He was an outspoken critic of the system and its effect on the disadvantaged victims of gang violence. In this hard hitting book by an active participant in many nationally famous trials, he tells of his life and his career as a judge in one of North Carolina's most active judicial districts. Righter Publishing Company, Inc (October 11, 2009) (apparently also available in paperback for $20) Edited by Quasimodo, Oct 26 2009, 08:04 PM.



Quasimodo	Oct 26 2009, 08:28 PM Post #2
Posts: 4,821 Group: Tier1 Member #17 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/other_views/story/151644.html Hold that line? For 80 years, universities haven't BY CHARLES CLOTFELTER (Oct. 22, 2009) DURHAM -- American college athletics, a report says, is "a highly organized commercial enterprise. The athletes who take part in it have come up through years of training; they are commanded by professional coaches; little if any personal initiative of ordinary play is left to the player. The great matches are highly profitable enterprises." Although these words well describe big-time college sports in 2009, they were written 80 years ago. On Oct. 23, 1929, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching issued a 350-page report that was based on three years of work and site visits to more than 100 campuses. Titled simply "American College Athletics," it received front-page coverage the next day in The New York Times. What is most striking about the Carnegie Foundation report is how contemporary its findings sound today. Despite the dramatic changes that have transformed college athletics into a major part of the American entertainment industry -- including television and the influx of billions of advertising dollars -- the descriptions it gives of conditions in 1929 provide an eerily accurate picture of 2009. (snip) Charles Clotfelter is a professor of public policy, economics and law at Duke University. He is writing a book about the role of big-time athletics in American universities. (I have no idea if he will mention the case, but it would be a glaring omission for him to dismiss the matter in a couple of words. The aspect of 'hatred/envy' of college athletics ought also to get a treatment, somewhere--especially in any book written by someone from Duke.)



Baldo	Oct 27 2009, 02:00 PM Post #3
Posts: 8,436 Group: Tier2 Member #45 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	I expect more crap. I know college football athletics pretty well having had good connections over the years. Things have changed dramatically in the last twenty years. Most college athletes are highly organized in their daily activities, much more than normal students. From the time they enter college they are scheduled for study hall, grade reviews, mandatory class attendance, and then their football training begins. Many asst coaches are held responsible for their players and indeed personally check in on classes. They have little time off. Most also know the statical reality that they won't be turning pro and take their education seriously. Especially since the 90's when a national champion university had a 19% graduation rate the NCAA had made it a point to reverse that and have been successful. It is now not uncommon for the athletic departments to have a higher graduation rate then the university as a whole. This also applies to all sports. But it probably doesn't fit the metanarrative some profs want. However I would be remiss if I didn't praise my professors who did take an interest in me. They cared as do most professors. The "88" and their kind the exception. I am proud of the NCAA and its promotion of college athlete-scholar. Edited by Baldo, Oct 27 2009, 02:03 PM.



nyesq83	Oct 27 2009, 02:09 PM Post #4
Posts: 514 Group: Members Member #239 Joined: Apr 29, 2008	The problem for many academics is that the sports (tail) is wagging the academic (dog). Note that any complaint by the academy about the costs and salary expenses of sports will not be tempered by the admission that there are generous payments to career academicians (see for example the scandals about tenured profs who belittle their students and the profs get promoted (DU) and also examine the NC State and UNC systems where profs become admins and then go back to being profs with very little teaching to do and still get paid handsomely all the while).



Quasimodo	Oct 28 2009, 12:03 PM Post #5
Posts: 4,821 Group: Tier1 Member #17 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	This comment from DIW : Quote: Time for another book! "After Innocence." A scorching review of Duke as a defendant. I'll buy! Me, too...



cks	Oct 28 2009, 09:08 PM Post #6
Posts: 938 Group: Members Member #445 Joined: Mar 1, 2009	Baldo - what you say is true about college athletes. Three of my four children have played sports at the collegiate level. Their life consisted of practice, classes, study, practice, study, eating, and sleeping with the weekends taken up with competition and then recovering from the travel, doing laundry, studying, and sleeping. Their social life revolved around their teammates with a little time for Greek activities. Their coaches knew what they were up to and kept tabs on them. I think that this is the norm rather than the exception from talking with my friends who also have children who are college athletes.



Baldo	Oct 28 2009, 09:33 PM Post #7
Posts: 8,436 Group: Tier2 Member #45 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	cks Oct 28 2009, 09:08 PM Baldo - what you say is true about college athletes. Three of my four children have played sports at the collegiate level. Their life consisted of practice, classes, study, practice, study, eating, and sleeping with the weekends taken up with competition and then recovering from the travel, doing laundry, studying, and sleeping. Their social life revolved around their teammates with a little time for Greek activities. Their coaches knew what they were up to and kept tabs on them. I think that this is the norm rather than the exception from talking with my friends who also have children who are college athletes. Thanks! Nothing beats real life personal experience. Real excellence comes at a price and for the scholar athlete it means work, lots of it.



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