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Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
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Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[1943]
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Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"Boston's North Endhas been the model for urban ethnography for fifty years.
By mapping the intricate social worlds of street gangs and "corner boys," Whyte was among the first to demonstrate that a poor community need not be socially disorganized. His...
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Motorbooks
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Learn the real stories behind legendary events in motorcycle outlaw history. Pretty much everything the world has ever heard about one-percenter motorcycle clubs has been pure, unadulterated bullshit. Take the so-called Hollister riot of 1947 that started it all. LIFE magazine convinced America that what Hunter Thompson called "The Menace" was about to ride into town spewing rage and thirty-weight motor oil, and America believed it. So what really...
9) Rumble fish
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
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A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
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Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs in the United States. The author traces the emergence of these gangs in the four major geographical regions over the span of two centuries, from the early 1800s to 2012. The author's authoritative analysis explains gang emergence and expansion from play groups to heavily armed street gangs responsible for a large proportion of urban...
18) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
19) Swelter
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Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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In the most notorious robbery in Las Vegas history, five men nicknamed the Rat Pack hit the Luxor casino for $100 million dollars. They escape prison to recover the buried money hidden in a strange, crazy small town.
20) Bonnie & Clyde
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Sony Pictures Television Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet. The two embark on one of the most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
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