Criminal Conversations: An Anthology of the Work of Tony Parker [Hardcover]

This anthology, selected by Tony Parker shortly before his death in 1996, provides the very essence of his quite distinctive contribution to criminology. In it he speaks intimately to all kinds of people including offenders, inadequates, professional criminals, sex offenders, frauds and false pretence merchants and prisoners on death row. Lyn Smith concludes with some reflections on his methodology.
This collection celebrates an outstanding body of work and provides a fascinating insight into the criminal mind and experience. It will be compelling reading not only for those studying criminology, probation or prison studies, but also for the interested general reader.Editor's Preface  Foreword  Inadequates  Villainy: A Way of Life  Some Answers to a Question  Nonces, Frauds and False Pretence Merchants  At Death's Door  ConclusionDescribed as 'A unique observer of human behaviour' (The Observer), Tony Parker has been the outstanding interviewer of criminals since the Second World War. In this anthology of thirty years of his work he speaks with all kinds of offenders.US? 1999 Tim Parker, except final chapter, Only listen&, ? 1999 Lyn Smith Introduction ? 1999 Terence Morris