Joe Domanick
American investigative journalist and historian (born 1943)
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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]
Joe Domanick | |
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| Born | February 10, 1943 |
| Education | University of Southern California Columbia University Hunter College |
| Notable work | Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing |
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]
Publications
- Faking it in America: Barry Minkow and the Great ZZZZ Best Scam. Chicago: Contemporary Books. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8092-4497-3.[9]
- To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams; Pocket Books. New York: Pocket Books. 1994. ISBN 978-0-671-75111-1.[10]
- Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-520-24668-3.[11]
- Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4516-4107-3.[12][13]
