Pitiful Criminals
Contributors: Powell, David
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781619023864; 9781322544502; 9781619023116
Subjects: Violence; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency; Victims of family violence; Family violence; Social Welfare & Social Work; Mentally ill offenders; Social Sciences; Criminology
Description: When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it's worth starting their first conversation in over a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd?standard hooligans, in Bottoms' mind, until his friend became cruel in his violence, exhibiting?pure, gleeful meanness." Years later, as they cross paths at an ATM in their hometown, the friend can't believe Bottoms went to college, grad school, is a writing professor with a wife and kids. The friend has been in and out of prison for drugs and drunken brawls, has a son with a black eye waiting in his tr.
Notes: English.

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Table of contents: title: A Message from Prison ; The Minister's Handyman; The Shooter; Scarface ; The Truce ; Attempted Murder Mystery; Half of What I Thought I Knew (Or, Criminals Before THeir Crimes) ; The Man Who Found Two Bodies; Easy Roller ; A Couple of Ways to Kill Yourself ; Rabbit Dog Gun ; Hit and Run ; A New Trial.