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(More customer reviews)I am ana B. Arguello ("Star"). I spent the better part of the last decade with Dr. Stannard-Friel (the Doc) and Tammi ("City Baby") working on this book, working on TLU, working on becoming a better person, working on my life. I have been to the torture chambers of sexual and human abuse called prisons in the State of California, I have been strung out on heroine, I have been everywhere that people in their "right mind" wouldn't go. I have been a burr in the a$$ of society and have spent a 11 years reconciling with my famil and that society. But I have never been to this side of "me".
It is one thing to tell your story (12-steppers do it every day all day...or die). It is another thing to write your story and read it aloud. But it is an unexplainable experience to read your life, written and analyzed (and true) by someone else.
The trilogies read like a gripping science fiction, fiction, novel...and they are all true...I know, it is my life. And now I advocate to uplift prisoner's rights to preserve human rights...because everything that I have lived, recorded in this book stills goes on...it still haunts me...in there...and out here!
Happy Reading, Thank you!
In Solidarity for Peace, Justice and Blessings!
ana B. "Star! in San Francisco
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This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into and out of street deviance. Utilizing in-depth case studies, the book examines the relationship of an individual's learned and inherited human traits and the culture that receives, socializes, and judges him or her. The book centers on the compelling life stories of City Baby and Star, two women who became criminal drug addicts, and the colorful history of San Francisco's Tenderloin District. It explains why City Baby is trapped in a world of drugs and violence, and how Star escaped hers. It describes how addictions and criminal behaviors are rooted in the human biological urge to seek meaningful lives and how the organization of our culture produces the very problems it abhors. The book asks, why do tenderloins, 'containment zones' for crime, exist in virtually every major city in the world and what do we do, as a community, to contribute to the problem of street deviance everywhere? This work will be of interest to sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, as well as the general reader.
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