"Where such repair is possible, what often results is not the acquisition of fully normal status, but a transformation of self from someone with a particular blemish into someone with a record of having corrected a particular blemish." (p. 9)
On the Take, Second Edition: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (A Midland Book) by William J. Chambliss
This by far my most favorite required reading at the University of Washington, for not only does it detail organized crime here in Seattle from the old days, but describes the connection between criminalization of drugs and the resultant production of crime networks to support it.
Required reading for everyone involved in the BRAIN Initiative.