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So You Think You Know Me?
~ Allan Weaver
Foreword by
Mike Nellis and Fergus McNeill
Pages
TBC
Paperback
Due For Publication
01/09/2008
ISBN-10:
190438045X
ISBN-13:
9781904380450
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So You Think You Know Me?
The autobiography of an ex-offender and twice-times inmate of Barlinnie Prison, now a social work team-leader in his native Scotland.
As the local hard man, author Allan Weaver took no prisoners in his youth. Neither does he in this compelling work in which he describes an early life of increasingly violent episodes, in which teachers, social workers and others never sought to get to know him - or what his offending was about. Hence, a never-ending escalation of his violent activities, creating tensions for his family, friends and often dubious associates in the seaside town where he grew up.
So You Think You Know Me? is infused with contradictions in which the Allan Weaver who commits sometimes unspeakable acts of mayhem and aggression is not the Allan Weaver telling the story from inside his own head: an often vulnerable, sensitive, articulate and (if somewhat crazily) balanced individual to whom his own actions never seem to make any sense beyond a misguided insistence on living up to his tough guy image and reputation.
That there can be any tidy ending to this gritty true account of a life spent in residential homes, Borstal, prison and always at a respectful distance from the police and other authority figures is remarkable – as are his own comments on a present-day Criminal Justice System that he believes is still failing young people for reasons which are given in the book.
Essential reading for anyone involved with serious young offenders, especially those of a violent disposition.
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