August 1981 got massive coverage in the media.
Almost everyone agreed that Reeve, 'criminally insane' and a double-murderer, was best kept out of circulation for life. keeve d autobiography should change This clearlv written and intelligent book gives a devastating insight into the British prison system and the treatment and control of the criminally 'insane' which will broaden any socialist's understanding of how the state deals with 'deviance' dissidents.
Reeve's story
fascinating and terrifying. A disturbed and disrupted childhood led to a trail of petty crime. Each incident, and the increasingly brutal. uncaring of authorities, isolated the Alan his parents and placed him and his elder brother in a state of individual revolt against the adult world.
This familiar story has ALAN REEVE'S escape from Broadmoor in and his recapture in Amsterdam following a shoot out with Dutch police a year later a tragic twist. While on the run from Borstal, drugged and in a state of high tensIon, Alan killed another boy during a quarrel. At the age of fifteen he was committed to Broadmoor for an indefinite period under the Mental Health Reviewed by Peter Purton The most interesting part of the book describes Reeve survived periods of brutal maltreatment and solitary confinement, being framed for another murder, and came to terms with himset and his relation ship with other people and society as a whole.
This was done by an intense period of study, starting with Marxism. . As one or biose people the edge of society who suffer the sharp point of state violence. Reeve was able beyond the dividual response
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