Foreword
Preface
PART ONE. Introduction: Cultures of Crime
Who was George Appo?
The Rise of the Pickpocket
Drugs and Crime
Green Goods
Policing the Industrial City
Politics and Crime
The Penitentiary
Good Fellows
Progressive Criminology
The Criminal Memoir
Appo Transformed
Appo’s Memory
Conclusion
PART TWO. The Document: The Autobiography of George Appo
Childhood
The Penitentiary
Jack Collins, Tom Lee, and Fred Crage
Sing Sing Again
Philadelphia
Thomas Wilson
Green Goods
Poughkeepsie
Clinton Again
Stealing Guys
The Lexow Committee
In the Tenderloin
Violence
Matteawan
Reform
Good Fellows
Reflections
PART THREE. Related Documents
George Appo in His Words and Others
1. Louis Beck, New York’s Chinatown (1898)
2. George Appo, Letter to Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York, May 9, 1899
3. Dr. Henry E. Allison, Report on George Appo, 1899
4. Lewis Lawes, excerpt from Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing (1932)
5. Bronx Home News, Obituary on George Appo, June 15, 1930
Subcultures of Crime
6. George W. Matsell, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon (1859)
7. New York State Assembly, Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the Assembly of 1875 to Investigate the Causes of the Increase of Crime in the City of New York (1876)
8. New York State Senate, Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Department of the City of New York (1895)
9. Thomas Byrnes, "Methods of Professional Criminals of America," in Professional Criminals of America (1886)
10. Lincoln Steffens, "The Underworld" in The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
11. William T. Stead, "King McNally and His Police," in Satan’s Invisible World Displayed, or, Despairing Democracy: A Study of Greater New York (1898)
The Criminal in Popular Culture
12. Review of In the Tenderloin in The Illustrated American (1895)
Appendixes
A George Appo Chronology (1856-1930)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index