The JackRoller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story (Phoenix Books),Used

The JackRoller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story (Phoenix Books),Used

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The JackRoller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant and coauthor, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 and had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a oneyear sentence for burglary and jackrolling (mugging),Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquenthis experiences, influences, attitudes, and values. The JackRoller helped to establish the lifehistory or 'own story' as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study and treatment of juvenile delinquency and maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.

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