Delinquency Lessons
A 2006 memoir by David Essig-Beatty

Life is heading downhill fast for a Jersey boy who throws stones, curses, runs away, shoplifts, lights fires, and steals a motorcyle.  Salvation comes to Bound Brook  on dark wings and  fast legs in these stories of growing up poor in the unsupervised sixties.
Prologue
Crime Scene
Lesson 1: Run Fast 1963
Lesson 2: Leap Before You Look Hooligans
Lesson 3: Talk Tough Kenfuckians
Lesson 4: Use Your Head Head Butters
Lesson 5: Pick Your Prey Larcenists
Lesson 6: Coordinate Lies Arsonists
Lesson 7: Hit Hard
Lesson 8: Cut Christmas Treed
Lesson 9: Say a Prayer Altar Boys
WARNING:  Some of these stories contain adult language.  Guidance is recommended for children under 13 years .
Wops
Lesson 10: Pack an Iceball
Freak
Lesson 11: Hide the Evidence
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White
Lesson 12: It Is Black and White
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Lesson 13: Or Is It? Black
Lesson 14: It Isn't
Grey
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