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 |
Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania
Title | Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Franscell |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 149300445X |
The Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania is the ultimate guidebook to the crime, injustice, and seedy history of the Keystone State. With photographs, maps, directions, and sites to visit, this collection of outlaw tales serves as both a travel guide and an entertaining and informational read. It is a one-of-a-kind exploration into well-known and more obsure sites in Pennsylvania that retain memories of bandits and their scandalous deeds. The Crime Buff series offers indispensable guidebooks for criminal-history enthusiasts and travelers. Each site description includes a brief summary of the spot’s significance, historical context, maps, directions, and photos. Appealing to both residents and visitors, the books reveal the exploits of famous and less famous outlaws in an irresistable and informational manner. Readers will be shocked, unsettled, and captivated by the true stories and secrets illuminated in the Outlaw collection.
Outlaw
Title | Outlaw PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Streissguth |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0062038206 |
A “compulsively readable” history of how Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson redefined country music (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Outlaw delves into the country music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s, when three rebels—Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famers resisted the music business’s unwritten rules and emerged as leaders of the outlaw movement that ultimately changed the recording industry. This account offers a broad portrait of the outlaw movement in Nashville that includes a diverse secondary cast of characters, such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, and Billy Joe Shaver, among others. With archival photographs throughout, Outlaw is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way. “[An] engaging cultural history . . . a fascinating chronicle.” —The Washington Post “Riveting.” —The Wall Street Journal
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.
Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
Title | Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Grace Duncan |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 1999-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0814718817 |
Emerging from her fascination with anarchists while studying political science at Columbia, Duncan (law, Emory U.) explores the paradoxes of crime, such as law-abiding citizens who like to commit violent criminal deeds, convicts who find beauty in their prison yards, and wardens who lose their jobs because they are actually succeeding at rehabilitating their charges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR