The Criminal Alphabet : An A-Z of Prison Slang

Resumen del libro

The ultimate guide to the criminal world through its slang - from insults to terms of respect, weapons to injuries, crimes to punishment 'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to become an adult prisoner in the 1980s and beyond. My shortest prison sentence was 7 days (for criminal damage) and my longest sentence was life (for bank robbery and possession of firearms).

I have 58 criminal convictions for everything from attempted theft to armed robbery and prison escape, and I was a career criminal for most of my life. What I do not know about criminal and prison slang could be written on the back of a postage stamp and still leave room for The Lord's Prayer ...' From ex-professional bank robber and best-selling author Noel Smith, this is the most authoritative dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an absorbing journey, through words, into the heart of the criminal world.

Biografía del autor

Noel Razor Smith (Londres, 1960) abandonó la escuela a los catorce años y a los dieciséis fue condenado por primera vez por atraco a mano armada. Aprendió a leer y escribir en la cárcel, donde se convirtió en un lector voraz y fundó la revista Sorted, ganadora de tres premios Koestler. Durante tres décadas estuvo entrando y saliendo de prisión por atracar bancos, fugarse de la cárcel y por posesión de armas de fuego. Excarcelado definitivamente en 2010, Smith es autor de dos libros de memorias, cuatro de no ficción y también ha publicado artículos en The Independent,The Guardian, Punch y New Statesman.