By Keith Soothill
ISBN-10: 0203981170
ISBN-13: 9780203981177
ISBN-10: 0415197392
ISBN-13: 9780415197397
This anthology, chosen by means of Tony Parker presently earlier than his loss of life in 1996, presents the very essence of his fairly particular contribution to criminology. In it he speaks in detail to all types of individuals together with offenders, inadequates, specialist criminals, intercourse offenders, frauds and fake pretence retailers and prisoners on demise row. Lyn Smith concludes with a few reflections on his methodology.
This assortment celebrates a very good physique of labor and offers a desirable perception into the legal brain and adventure. it is going to be compelling analyzing not just for these learning criminology, probation or felony reviews, but in addition for the common reader.
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The things that go through my mind not only amaze me sometimes but often make me think Im not all there for instance I will try & explain. I will go to bed which is the place I do all my, to me, serious thinking and go over all the things Ive done that day & then I start thinking of what I will do in the future all sorts of things go through my mind such as—will I be able to stick this job for long what is there at the end of it for me if I stay on until Im 70 yrs old & then when Ive sorted it all out and made my mind up to try my best to stick in and try to make it my last job before retiring on pension the awful thought comes into my head will they find out about my past & of course this sets my mind on other things like what I would do if I did get found out to have a criminal past.
And I’ve kept feeling my hat on my head to see if it’s still there… I’ll never get used to it. Why have a got to? I hate outside. Why must a be pushed out all of a sudden like this, why, why? She had no friends; nor, she said flatly on that first day, did she want any. She didn’t want to have anything to do with other people, she just wanted to be left on her own. Nobody liked her, she knew that; there was nothing likeable about her, she’d always known. She was like an animal trapped in a cage of misery and loneliness, pacing up and down in it, ready to scratch and slash and spit at anyone who tried to get near the bars.
For me there is no release. I cannot, by thinking, gain freedom from the conditioning of my thoughts. My mind is a confused no-man’s-land of waterlogged craters and barbed wire, of collapsed dug-outs and uncharted wastes of mud: shrouded in a pall of dark, through which I flounder perpetually, frightened and alone. There are no Very lights sent up for me to steer by, no search parties ordered out to render me assistance. ’ And as I blunder about, enfilading fire comes from the Law’s machine-gunners whenever they spot my head… Had I died in a war, in conditions like these, I might have been buried as The Unknown Soldier.