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The most disgusting objects of both sexes? : gender and race in the episodic crime news of the 1830s -- The cult of dead womanhood : protectors, villains, and victims in the origins of serialized crime news -- The innocent cause of all these troubles? : black victims and the 1863 anti-draft riots -- The malicious and untruthful white press? : lynch narratives and criminalization -- Monopolists of reason : the demise of sentimental crime reporting -- From the war on poverty to the war on crime -- Criminalizing black culture