This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. Format: Paperback Author: David Jacobs ISBN10: 1419687204 ISBN13: 9781419687204 CONVICTS: They are hardcore career criminals tough unregenerate wise guys who are so smart that they spend most of their lives in prison. They live for rape robbery narcotics violence and murder ? and that?s when they?re behind bars. JAILBIRDS: Here are the gutter sweepings of the jailhouse system: second-rate penny-ante crooks thieves dope peddlers strong-arm goons and scam artists. They dream only of getting up enough nerve to pull off some heavy scores and graduate to big-time plunder and murder. AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS: Forming switchblade-wielding girl gangs taking their first shots of heroin making ?easy money? by selling their fresh young bodies and attaching themselves to up-and-coming gun punks and triggermen they?re strictly poison in a candy wrapper. CONVICTS JAILBIRDS AND REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS ?singly or in combination they spell ?Trouble? for decent citizens and the police as witnessed in this double fistful collection of true crime tales from the 1950s.