Citizen Outlaw
Title | Citizen Outlaw PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Barber |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0062692879 |
A VITAL NEXT CHAPTER IN THE ONGOING CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA When he was in his early twenties, William Juneboy Outlaw iii was sentenced to eighty-five years in prison for homicide and armed assault. The sentence brought his brief but prolific criminal career as the head of a forty-member cocaine gang in New Haven, Connecticut, to a close. But behind bars, Outlaw quickly became a feared prison “shot caller” with 100 men under his sway. Then everything changed: His original sentence was reduced by sixty years. At the same time, he was shipped to a series of America’s most notorious federal prisons, where he endured long stints in solitary confinement—and where transformational relationships with a fellow inmate and with a prison therapist made him realize that he wanted more for himself. Upon his release, Outlaw took a job at Dunkin’ Donuts, began volunteering in New Haven, and started to rebuild his life. Now an award-winning community advocate, he leads a team of former felons in negotiating truces between gangs on the very streets that he once terrorized. The homicide rate in New Haven has decreased by 70 percent in the decade that he’s run the team—a drop as dramatic as in any city in the country. Written with exclusive access to Outlaw himself, Charles Barber’s Citizen Outlaw is the unforgettable story of how a gangleader became the catalyst for one of the greatest civic crime reductions in America, and an inspiring argument for love and compassion in the face of insurmountable odds.
From Outlaw to Citizen
Title | From Outlaw to Citizen PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Opie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | 9781877399688 |
Go Figure
Title | Go Figure PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Carle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2013-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780983461524 |
Gods of Mischief
Title | Gods of Mischief PDF eBook |
Author | George Rowe |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2014-02-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451667353 |
Relates the undercover work of George Rowe, who infiltrated the Vagos motorcycle gang, spending three years working to take down the gang from the inside.
Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West
Title | Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Patterson |
Publisher | Big Earth Publishing |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780933472891 |
A state-by-state review of the history of outlaws and outlaw activity in the Old West.
L.A. Outlaws
Title | L.A. Outlaws PDF eBook |
Author | T. Jefferson Parker |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451226112 |
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer. Reprint.
Outlaw Justice
Title | Outlaw Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore W. Jennings , Jr. |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013-04-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0804785996 |
This book offers a close reading of Romans that treats Paul as a radical political thinker by showing the relationship between Paul's perspective and that of secular political theorists. Turning to both ancient political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero) and contemporary post-Marxists (Agamben, Badiou, Derrida, and Žižek), Jennings presents Romans as a sustained argument for a new sort of political thinking concerned with the possibility and constitution of just socialities. Reading Romans as an essay on messianic politics in conversation with ancient and postmodern political theory challenges the stereotype of Paul as a reactionary theologian who "invented" Christianity and demonstrates his importance for all, regardless of religious affiliation or academic guild, who dream and work for a society based on respect, rather than domination, division, and death. In the current context of unjust global empires constituted by avarice, arrogance, and violence, Jennings finds in Paul a stunning vision for creating just societies outside the law.