Crime and Punishment U.S.A. innocent, unpretentious earnestness of address," "Crime and Punishment U.S.A." "is a moderately interesting attempt to state the material of a vast symphony with a small jazz combination.” Roger Corman later said the film "lost me a lot of money." Crime and Punishment U.S.A. Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959) is an American feature film, directed by Denis Sanders, and is— as the "New York Times" put it, “a beat generation version”—of the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The film was released on November 1, 1959, is 96 minutes in length, and shot in black-and-white. In addition to making some
The Color of Crime (1998 book) stereotype. The book popularised the term "racial hoax", which Russell-Brown defines as occurring when someone fabricates a crime and blames it on another person because of their race or when an actual crime has been committed and the perpetrator falsely blames someone because of their race. It gives the cases of Susan Smith, Jesse Anderson, and Charles Stuart as examples of racial hoaxes. She proposes six principles to achieve fairness in the criminal justice system: "The Color of Crime" has been widely cited since its publication and has been described as a pivotal book. NYUP states the book was "heralded