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 JOE DOMANICK, an award-winning investigative journalist and author, is the Senior Fellow for Criminal Justice of the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. His latest book is Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s Golden State. His previous book, To Protect and Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams, won the 1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. His first book, "Faking it in America," is about one of the most audacious stock market swindles of the 1980s. Domanick's feature articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Magazine, California Magazine, Washington Journalism Review, Playboy, Ms., Spin, Good Housekeeping, Buzz and the LA Weekly. From 1999 through 2001, Domanick hosted a twice-weekly radio show on news and current affairs on radio station KPFK-FM. (Pacifica Radio Network). He teaches journalism at the School of Journalism of USC Annenberg’s School for Communication and continues to freelance. Domanick has graduate degrees in social science from Hunter College, CUNY; education and sociology from Columbia University and broadcast journalism from the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
Articles:
Call in the Feds; California's dysfunctional prisons need a judicial jump-start. Aug. 6, 2006.
"After 12 Years, Handcuffs Stay on LAPD Reform; Blame a resistant culture and Bratton--and don't spare the City Council"
"The circumstances could not be better for transforming the scandal-plagued Los Angeles Police Department. The Police Commission, which oversees the department, is reform-minded, and the police chief, William J. Bratton, is a premier agent of change..."
"Covering Police in Times of Crisis": Justice and Journalism Conference Coverage"
A discussion on the need to work toward realistic and effective coverage of law enforcement and how to understand the legitimate concerns of the police toward the press.
"Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State"
"When the people of California overwhelmingly voted for the 1994 "three strikes" law, many had no idea what they were approving. The official ballot argument in favor of what Newsweek called "the toughest law in the nation" kept it simple: "Three strikes keeps career criminals who rape women, molest children and commit murder behind bars where they belong." What few people realized..."
"High On Justice"
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