John Irwin
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John Irwin
Words Brushed by Music
Over the past twenty-five years, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published thirty-one volumes of poetry, beginning in 1979 with John Hollander's Blue Wine and Other Poems.
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Lifers
John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery.
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The Jail
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, this book constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. It argues that rather than controlling the disreputable, jail disorients and degrades these people, indoctrinating new recruits to the rabble class.
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The Felon
Traces the career paths of such criminal types as the thief, the hustler, and the junkie, as well as the non-criminal 'square john'. This book explores the career of the felon, from early environment to crime to prison to parole, from the point of view of the felon himself.
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