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“Normally you would be ashamed of a mug shot and what it represents,” Ms. Woloson, a professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and the author of “Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America.” “It shows the cynicism of late capitalism and the era we are in,” said Wendy A.

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