Robert Blecker: Itchy, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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David "Itchy" Brooks, a legend on the streets of DC and in US prison lore, served life for the life he led--but the conviction was based on a murder he claims he didn't commit. For years, he had struggled to remain principled in an unprincipled world, living and killing based on his own set of morals. While serving his sentence at Lorton Central, with its notoriously high rates of Black incarceration, Itchy acted as the prison boxing coach and jailhouse lawyer, mentoring young inmates to learn from his mistakes and avoid paying the same price. When Robert Blecker, a white criminal law professor, visited Lorton in search of the code that governed a new, more violent generation of offenders, Itchy felt compelled to speak--to justify his life of crime, his treatment of women, and his sense of right and wrong.

Twelve years and hundreds of hours of conversations led to Itchy, a brutally honest and deeply emotional self-portrait assembled from the inmate's own words. This dynamic saga of a brash and strangely principled outlaw not only helps to explain street crime and its root causes but also raises the question: Would different role models or circumstances have produced a leader that society could celebrate rather than a killer it needed to incarcerate?