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Law & Disorder

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Law and Disorder: Stories of Conflict and Crime

Edited by Amy Locklin

ISBN: 978-1-59948-479-2, 326 pages, $15.95 cover price

($7.95 if order from the MSR Online Bookstore)

Release date: September 2, 2014

 

The anthology title Law and Disorder may remind many readers of the longtime running TV shows Law and Order and its subseries Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent. Their narratives attempt to impose order within the legal frame and they belong to a class of crime and detective genres.

Like the series, the short fiction contained within Law and Disorder explores police, victims, criminals, lawyers, and court proceedings, as well as similar genres. However, stories here more often concern the disorder before or after charges have been filed and criminals sentenced. They explore laws of family, community, religion, social class, race, gender, sex, identity, and even human nature. The processes through which such social laws are enforced often remain unarticulated and unseen, but the stories in Law and Disorder will help us see, help us imagine the unforeseen consequences, the inequities, the attendant problems of imposing power, social systems, in fact, thrown out of balance.

To survive yet also control, characters attempt to protect loved ones, seek vengeance, and change the future. Their distracted grief and self-interest create more victims along the way.