Can I read The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story on EtoBox?

The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story by Clifford R. Shaw, Michael Peter Majer, Ernest W. Burgess (editor), Howard S. Becker (introduction) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story about?

Edited by Ernest W. Burgess & with a New Introduction by Howard S. BeckerThe Jack-Roller tells the story of Stanley, a pseudonym Clifford Shaw gave to his informant & co-author, Michael Peter Majer. Stanley was sixteen years old when Shaw met him in 1923 & had recently been released from the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, after serving a one-year sentence for burglary & jack-rolling (mugging), Vivid, authentic, this is the autobiography of a delinquent—his experiences, influences, attitudes, & values. The Jack-Roller helped to establish the life-history or “own story” as an important instrument of sociological research. The book remains as relevant today to the study & treatment of juvenile delinquency & maladjustment as it was when originally published in 1930.°°°Clifford R. Shaw (1895-1957) was a sociologist at the University of Chicago & founder of the Chicago Area Project.Ernest W. Burgess (1886 – 1966) was an urban sociologist born in Tilbury, Ontario. He was educated at Kingfisher College in Oklahoma & continued graduate studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1916, he returned to the University of Chicago, as a faculty member in the Sociology Department

Who reads The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy’s Own Story?

Author

Clifford R. Shaw, Michael Peter Majer, Ernest W. Burgess (editor), Howard S. Becker (introduction)

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

1930

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social_sciences