Criminal Life: Views from the Inside (1972)

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall (book, anthology), 1972.
9" x 6" x 0.5", 228 pages, softcover.

Criminal Life: Views from the Inside, an anthology edited by David M. Petersen and Marcello Truzzi, published by Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) in 1972. Cover design by Andrew Ross.

Burroughs contributes "my first days on junk", pp. 14-25, from Junkie.

Not in Maynard & Miles.
Shoaf II.89.

Contents: 

• David M. Petersen and Marcello Truzzi: preface
• Part One: Behavior Patterns of Offenders:
• Claude Brown: "growing up in harlem"
• Polly Adler: "on becoming a prostitute"
• William S. Burroughs: "my first days on junk"
• Robert Allerton: "some comments on being a criminal"
• "Chic" Conwell: "theft as a way of life"
• David Dressler (transcriber): "maxie the goniff"
• Anonymous: "gang boy"
• Joseph Valachi (testimony): "organized crime and the cosa nostra"
• Anonymous: "policy: the eternal dream"
• "RIC": "i turned on 200 fellow students"
• Ex-Deputy Sheriff (testimony): "the tarnished shield"
• Anonymous: "annie the cop fighter"
• Henry Williamson: "hustler!"
• George Orwell: "reflections of a tramp"
• Anonymous: "streetwalker"
• Kenneth Marlowe: "on being a homosexual"
• David Schiffer: "i gypped life insurance companies for $1,000,000"
• "Yellow Kid" Weil: "confessions of a con man"
• Herbert Emerson Wilson: "i stole $16,000,000"
• Part Two: Prison:
• James Hardy Vaux: "prisoner privileges in the 1800's"
• John N. Reynolds: "the punishments of prison"
• Anonymous: "how it feels to be a convict"
• Barbara Deming: "prisoners don't exist"
• Dorothy West: "i was afraid to shut my eyes"
• William Doyle: "man alone"
• Nathan F. Leopold, Jr.: "the deprivations of prison"
• Haywood Patterson: "sex roles in prison"
• Anonymous: "sex in a women's prison"
• Edgar Labat: "life on death row"
• Part Three: Issues in Criminology:
• Prisoner no. 4000x: "a criminal looks at crime and punishment"
• Alfred Hassler: "the futility of prisons"
• "FRISCO": "a prisoner's views on scientific penology"
• Caryl Chessman: "a letter to the governor"
• Bibliography