# The Criminal Alphabet

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- Book: [The Criminal Alphabet](https://www.bookquiver.com/noel-razor-smith/the-criminal-alphabet) ([The Criminal Alphabet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/noel-razor-smith/the-criminal-alphabet.md))
- Authors: [Noel 'Razor' Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/noel-razor-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4194-683-2
- Published: 2015-08-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in. I was a juvenile offender back in the mid 1970s and went on to become an adult prisoner in the 1980s and beyond. My shortest prison sentence was 7 days (for criminal damage) and my longest sentence was life (for bank robbery and possession of firearms). I have 58 criminal convictions for everything from attempted theft to armed robbery and prison escape, and I was a career criminal for most of my life. What I do not know about criminal and prison slang could be written on the back of a postage stamp and still leave room for The Lord's Prayer ...' From ex-professional bank robber and bestselling author Noel Smith, this is the most authoritative dictionary of criminal slang out there - and an unmissable journey, through words, into the heart of the criminal world.