By Fred D. Pasley.
The Biography of a Self-Made Man. “Im getting sick of fellows like Hughes using me to attract glory to themselves,” said Al.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (1930) 208 pages.
By Thomas Furlong.
Late Chief of the Secret Service of the Missouri Pacific Railway, known as the Gould System; the Allegheny Valley Railway of Pennsylvania, and first Chief of Police of Oil City, Pa. 35 real detective stories, hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, better known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails) for special service.
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. (ca. 1870) 284 pages.
By Anthony Trollope
A spirited defense by bright and friendly story-teller Anthony Trollope, of Cicero up to the peak of his career and during the dying days of the Roman Republic. Whose side was he on? Trollope was certainly on Cicero’s. But Cicero?
Harrow and Heston Classic Reprint. NY. Harper. 1881. 330p.
By Chas. A. Siringo.
The true life of the most daring young outlaw of the age. He was the leading spirit in the bloody Lincoln County, New Mexico, war. When a bullet from Sheriff Pat Garett's pistol pierced his breast he was only twenty-one years of age, and had killed twenty-one men, not counting Indians. His six years of daring young outlawry has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history.
Read-Me.Org Classic Reprint. (1920) 145p.
By Thomas F. Daggett.
Or, The King of American Highwaymen. A complete and authentic history of this famous young desperado, his crimes and adventures.
New York: R.K. Fox, Franklin Square, (1881). 124p.
By Daniel Defoe et al.
Murderers, Street-Robbers, etc.by Daniel Defoe. Charles Johnson, and Alexander Smith. Birmingham: Printed by R. Walker. (1742) 453p.
By Joseph A. Dacus.
“In that dreadful ebullition of human hatreds, Frank and Jesse James played no laggard's part. As boys, they accepted service under Quantrell, and became renowned for caution and daring even in the days of their youth. Members of a partisan organization, famed even in the early days of the strife for daring deeds and extraordinary activity; a band, every man of which was a desperado of great cunning and prowess, these two callow-youths, taken from a country farm, speedily rose to the eminence of leading spirits among the most daring of men. Both sides in the border counties of Missouri and Kansas prosecuted war with a vindictive fury unparalleled in modern history. The scene of the operations of the Guerrillas was at first confined to the limits of Clay, Platte, Jackson, Bates, Henry, Johnson, and Lafayette counties, in Missouri, and along the Kansas border.”
St. Louis: W.S. Bruan; Chicago, J.S. Goodman, 1880. 396p.
by Charles MacFarlane.
The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in All Parts of the World, Vol.1.. “Neither the fullness of years nor maturity of experience and worldly wisdom can render us as insensible to tales of terror such as fascinated our childhood, nor preserve us from a ‘creeping of the flesh’ as we read or listen to the narrative containing the daring exploits of some robber-chief, his wonderful address, his narrow escapes, and his prolonged crimes…”
London: T. Tegg and Son, 1837. 360p.
By W.S. Fortey.
A Most Notorious Highwayman. “Richard Turpin was born at Hampstead, in Essex, where his father kept the sign of the Bell; and after being the usual time at school, he was bound to apprentice to a butcher in Whitechapel, but did not serve out his time, for his master discharged him for impropriety of conduct, which was not in the least diminished by his parents' indulgence in supplying him with money, which enabled him to cut a figure round the town, among the blades of the road and the turf, whose company he usually kept.”
London: W.S. Fortey, 1860. 12p.
By A. Moore.
A brief historical account of the lives of the six notorious street-robbers, executed at Kingston viz. William Blewet, Edward Bunworth, Emanuel Dickenson, Thomas Berry, John Higges, and John Legee.
London: Printed for A. Moore, (1726). 52p.
By Richard S. Graves.
A Graphic History of the Early Days in Oklahoma; the Bandits who Terrorized the First Settlers and the Marshals who Fought them to Extinction; Covering a Period of Twenty-five Years .
Oklahoma City: State Printing & Publishing, Co., (1915?) 141p.
By Capt. Charles Johnson.
Pirates and Robbers, drawn from the most authentic sources, with additions by C. Whitehead. “He alone is a truly brave man, who, being powerful, for brave in it disgraceful to insult the feeble : many who pass the estimation of the world, are yet cowardly enough to commit base and barbarous actions : what else can be said of those, who possessing strength of mind and vigour of body, employ their faculties to rob and oppress the weak and ignorant ? It is an easy matter to assume the semblance of fortitude and resolution; but few, very few, are the individuals who really possess those noble qualities : particularly such hardened villains whose lives and exploits are so faithfully recorded in the following work.”
London Booksellers (1883) 452 pages.
By Harry Hawkeye.
A narrative of the thrilling adventures of the most daring and resourceful bandit ever recorded in the criminal annals of the world.
Ottenheimer (1908) 196 pages.
By James Allen.
Alias Jonas Pierce.. The front cover of the famous skin-bound copy has a label which reads "HIC LIBER WALTONIS CUTE COMPACTUS EST" ("This book is bound in the skin of Walton"); Walton was one of the author's aliases. Some claim that books were bound in the skin of criminals. The narrative is a combination of autobiography and confession, transcribed by the warden, as the author himself was unable to write. It details Allen's life, beginning from childhood and laying out his struggles to find honest work as a teenager.[5] Allen explains how he moved from breaking into shops to highway robbery, and how he attempted to escape imprisonment many times. The book ends with a note from the warden, regarding Allen's state of mind toward the end of his life — Wikipedia.
Boston: Harrington & Co., 1837. 32p.
By Wendy S. Hesfor.
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both conservative and liberal logics, especially at times of crisis when politicians leverage humanitarian storytelling as a political weapon. Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children’s human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional—erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise.
Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2021. 282p.
Edited by Iris Berger, Tricia Hepner, Benjamin Lawrence, Joanna Tague, and Meredith Terretta.
Activism, Expert Testimony, and Refugee Rights. This book examines the emerging trend of requests for expert opinions in asylum hearings or refugee status determinations. This is the first book to explore the role of court-based expertise in relation to African asylum cases and the first to establish a rigorous analytical framework for interpreting the effects of this new reliance on expert testimony. Over the past two decades, courts in Western countries and beyond have begun demanding expert reports tailored to the experience of the individual claimant. As courts increasingly draw upon such testimony in their deliberations, expertise in matters of asylum and refugee status is emerging as an academic area with its own standards, protocols, and guidelines. This deeply thoughtful book explores these developments and their effects on both asylum seekers and the experts whose influence may determine their fate. Contributors: Iris Berger, Carol Bohmer, John Campbell, Katherine Luongo, E. Ann McDougall, Karen Musalo, Tricia Redeker Hepner, Amy Shuman, Joanna T. Tague, Meredith Terretta, and Charlotte WalkerSaid.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. 287p.
By African Child Policy Forum.
This publication is prepared both to advance our knowledge of the important but complex subject of child Justice in Africa and to inform the discussions at the 2nd Global Conference on Child Justice in Africa to be held in Addis Ababa in May 2018. This conference, organised by the African Child Policy forum (ACPF) and Defence for Children International (DCI) is a follow-up to the first such conference that took place in Kampala, Uganda, in November 2011. That conference resulted in the African Guidelines on Action for Children in Justice Systems in Africa which were endorsed by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child at its March 2012 meeting. ACPF also published a continental study on children and justice systems in that year. The current study updates and extends that earlier study, seeking to examine the progress that has been made, and the challenges that remain, since the 2011 conference in achieving childfriendly justice in African justice systems. Given that children come in contact with justice system in different ways – through the formal and informal justice systems, in religious justice systems in some parts of the continent, and in both the criminal and civil justice systems – this study charts the continuum of experiences that children undergo in their contact with these systems.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia" ACPF, 2018. 173p.
By Frances Webber.
The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights. Borderline Justice describes the exclusionary policies, inhumane decisions and obstacles to justice for refugees and migrants in the British legal system. Frances Webber, a long-standing legal practitioner, reveals how the law has been (mis)applied to migrants, refugees and other ‘unpopular minorities’. This book records some of the key legal struggles of the past thirty years which have sought to preserve values of universality in human rights - and the importance of continuing to fight for those values, inside and outside the courtroom. The themes and analysis cross boundaries of law, politics, sociology, criminology, refugee studies and terrorism studies, appealing to the radical tradition in all these disciplines.
London: Pluto Books, 2012. 257p.
Edited by Paolo Cuttitta, and Tamara Last.
Causes, Dynamics and Consequences of Migration-related Mortality. A 2018 report by two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) revealed that US Border Patrol agents ‘routinely intimidate, harass, and surveil humanitarian-aid volunteers, thus impeding the administration of humanitarian aid’ along the US-Mexico border. Furthermore, they ‘stab, stomp, kick, drain, and confiscate the bottles of water that humanitarian-aid volunteers leave along known migrant routes’ (La Coalición de Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths 2018). More broadly, through the criminalization of humanitarian assistance and the ‘weaponization’ of the terrain, US authorities make themselves responsible for the suffering, death and disappearance of many people (Morgan-Olsen 2018; Osuna 2018). On the other hand, Border Patrol agents often carry out rescue operations to save migrants, which – they argue – demonstrates ‘their dedication in protecting human life’ (U.S. Customs and Border Protection 2019). They are presented as true humanitarians (Price 2018). According to US President Donald Trump, the problem of border deaths can only be solved with more border control. ‘Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end’ was his comment on the death of two children occurred shortly after their crossing from Mexico (Tatum 2018)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 175p.
By Barbara Roberts.
Until recently, immigration policy was largely in the hands of a small group of bureaucrats, who strove desperately to fend off “offensive” peoples. Barbara Roberts explores these government officials, showing how they not only kept the doors closed but also managed to find a way to get rid of some of those who managed to break through their carefully guarded barriers. Robert’s important book explores a dark history with an honest and objective style.
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988. 264p.