Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, the author describes the big-city jail and how it disorients and degrades people to a "rabble." This is a reissue of the work that was published in 1987.

Irwin mirrors the aesthetic impact of the genre by creating in his study the dynamics of a detective story--the uncovering of mysteries, the accumulation of evidence, the tracing of clues, and the final solution that ties it all together.

Introduction -- The lifers -- Their crimes -- Awakening -- Atonement -- California lifers' legal predicaments -- Epilogue.

Based on in-depth interviews and two years of participant observation, this book traces the career path of the felon - from early environment to crime to prison to parole - from the point of view of the offender.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Thoughtful, deliberate, and extraordinarily learned, this is the most complete and careful reading of Crane’s poetry available.

This expanded edition makes available once again John Irwin's masterful exposition on the unconscious desire and doubling that inform the novels.

Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.