Burns, Sarah
The Central Park Five
- ISBN 13:
- 9781529358971
- author:
- Burns, Sarah
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.9 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, True Crime, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Central Park Five by Sarah Burns In April 1989, a brutal attack on a jogger in New York's Central Park sent shockwaves through the city. The subsequent investigation and trial of five teenagers, all black or Hispanic, would become one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in American history. Despite no evidence linking them to the crime, the five were quickly apprehended, confessed, tried, and convicted as adults. It wasn't until DNA tests linked serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime that the truth began to unravel. In this book, Sarah Burns recounts the full story of the Central Park Five case for the first time since their convictions were overturned. Burns' account sheds light on the deep-seated racial and class divisions in New York City at the time, as well as the role of law enforcement, social institutions, and the media in perpetuating injustice.
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