Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper Paperback - 2020
by Barber, Charles
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Details
- Title Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper
- Author Barber, Charles
- Binding Paperback
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Date 2020-11-03
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ027XMT_ns
- ISBN 9780062692856 / 0062692852
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, African Americans - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019013862
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
A VITAL NEXT CHAPTER IN THE ONGOING CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA
When he was in his early twenties, William Juneboy Outlaw iii was sentenced to eighty-five years in prison for homicide and armed assault. The sentence brought his brief but prolific criminal career as the head of a forty-member cocaine gang in New Haven, Connecticut, to a close. But behind bars, Outlaw quickly became a feared prison "shot caller" with 100 men under his sway.
Then everything changed: His original sentence was reduced by sixty years. At the same time, he was shipped to a series of America's most notorious federal prisons, where he endured long stints in solitary confinement--and where transformational relationships with a fellow inmate and with a prison therapist made him realize that he wanted more for himself.
Upon his release, Outlaw took a job at Dunkin' Donuts, began volunteering in New Haven, and started to rebuild his life. Now an award-winning community advocate, he leads a team of former felons in negotiating truces between gangs on the very streets that he once terrorized. The homicide rate in New Haven has decreased by 70 percent in the decade that he's run the team--a drop as dramatic as in any city in the country.
Written with exclusive access to Outlaw himself, Charles Barber's Citizen Outlaw is the unforgettable story of how a gangleader became the catalyst for one of the greatest civic crime reductions in America, and an inspiring argument for love and compassion in the face of insurmountable odds.
