"First-rate ... this book is brimming with insight and intelligence. The portrait of street crime and the
street criminal in these pages is uncomfortably accurate.... A significant addition to the literature on American
violent crime."
--Franklin E. Zimring New York Times Book Review
"An important and original book.... Serious students of crime cannot afford to ignore it."
--Robert H. Frank Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Jack Katz captures the subjective experience of 'doing' street crime. It is an alluring and disturbing study,
an elegant combination of snapshots of reality and sociological analysis."
--Norval Morris University of Chicago
"The book glows in its role as storyteller and interpreter."
--Christian Science Monitor
Perseus Press Web Site, November, 2000
Summary
This chilling exploration of the criminal mind posits new and surprising explanations of criminal behavior,
from juvenile delinquency to cold-blooded murder.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Righteous Slaughter
Sneaky Thrills
Ways of the Badass
Street Elites
Doing Stickup
Action, Chaos, and Control: Persisting with Stickup
Of Hardmen and 'Bad Niggers': Gender and Ethnicity in the Background of Stickup
Primordial Evil: Sense and Dynamic in Cold-Blooded, 'Senseless' Murder
Seductions and Repulsions of Crime
