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An excellent book, simultaneously objective and interesting. Beyond the Usual Beating should and will likely become the definitive account of Jon Burge. --Peter Moskos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Baer has expertly marshalled the complex legal and political record of Chicago police torture and the vital contribution of the social movements that confronted the issue over the decades. Researched exhaustively, documented in painstaking detail, and written in a clear and concise voice, Beyond the Usual Beating is an important addition to the honest retelling of the sordid history of Chicago police torture. --G. Flint Taylor, founding partner of the People's Law Office

Baer has expertly marshalled the complex legal and political record of Chicago police torture and the vital contribution of the social movements that confronted the issue over the decades. Researched exhaustively, documented in painstaking detail, and written in a clear and concise voice, Beyond the Usual Beating is an important addition to the honest retelling of the sordid history of Chicago police torture. -- G. Flint Taylor, founding partner of the People's Law Office An excellent book, simultaneously objective and interesting. Beyond the Usual Beating should and will likely become the definitive account of Jon Burge. -- Peter Moskos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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Andrew S. Baer is assistant professor of history with a secondary appointment in African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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