Books by David Simon and Edward Burns
The Corner
by David Simon and Edward Burns
This book shows how the drug trade recruits children. All the natural abilities of these kids is plugged into the drug trade
Interviews where books by David Simon and Edward Burns were recommended
The best books on Slang, recommended by Jonathon Green
It’s dirty, grubby and doubting. And us at our most real. The lexicographer takes us inside the world of “rough, truthful language” from rhyming slang and cant to the streets of Baltimore and an etymology of the f-word
The best books on Gang Crime, recommended by Gavin Knight
Inner-city crime is a matter of deprivation not race. It comes from a street culture that respects extreme violence, says Gavin Knight, an author who spent two years among British gangs and the police units covering them
