Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re
Out in California (Oxford, 2001); and
George Skelton, “A Father’s Crusade
Born from Pain,” Los Angeles Times,
December 9, 1993.
Richard Wright and Scott Decker’s
interviews of convicted armed robbers
appear in Armed Robbers in Action:
Stickups and Street Culture
(Northeastern University Press, 1997).
The comments cited are on page 120.
Wright and Decker’s book is fascinating.
Here’s a bit more from them on the
psychology of criminality:
Some of the armed robbers also
tried not to think about getting caught