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Labelled a Black Villain

and Understanding the Social Deprivation Mindset

Trevor Hercules

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Labelled a Black Villain and Understanding the Social Deprivation Mindset

Trevor Hercules

Second edition

ISBN 978-1-909976-69-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-910979-83-9 (Epub ebook)

ISBN 978-1-910979-84-6 (Adobe ebook)

Copyright 1989, 2020 This work is the copyright of Trevor Hercules. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide.

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Cataloguing-In-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book can be obtained from the British Library.

EbookLabelled a Black Villain and Understanding the Social Deprivation Mindset is available as an ebook and also to subscribers of Ebrary, Ebsco, Myilibrary and Dawsonera.

Second edition published 2020 by

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First edition published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate Limited 1989. The Original Preface to that edition is reproduced with thanks to and kind permission.

Table of Contents

About the author

Trevor Hercules is a reformed armed robber who served time in Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, Albany, Parkhurst and Gartree prisons. He has since spent over 25 years working with young people and developing the Hercules Programme, aka the Social Deprivation Mindset or SDM which has been funded by the Monument Trust. An adviser to the Ministry of Justice who came to despair missed opportunities to better the lives of young people and prevent offending, his other works include The Rage Within (2006). His wider interests range from watching old black and white movies to playing the acoustic guitar, calming down with Bach or listening to The Jam, Curtis Mayfield and Dionne Warwick.

About the author of the Foreword

Duncan Campbell is the former crime correspondent for the Guardian, former chairman of the Crime Reporters Association and author among other works of Underworld; That Was Business, This Is Personal and Well All Be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain. He was the original presenter of Radio 5 Lives Crime Desk and has appeared in many criminal justice-related radio and TV documentaries.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Mike Nellis of Strathclyde University for his help and advice with this book, in particular when I was developing the SDM. I would also like to thank those who have supported me and helped me begin to make and sustain a positive contribution to society: Justine Greening MP, Mark Blake, Jeremy Crook, Mark Woodruff and Jo Baden to name a few. And to Duncan Campbell for contributing the Foreword.

Foreword

Duncan Campbell

T he memoirs of people who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law in Britain are part of a long and honourable tradition. From Eddie Guerins Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook in 1929 to Jimmy Boyles A Sense of Freedom in 1977 and Erwin James Redeemable in 2016, they have taught us much that we need to know about both crime and punishment. When Trevor Hercules wrote Labelled a Black Villain, which was first published in 1989, he added an important work to that genre as, until then, almost every writer in the field had been white.

Hercules gives us his own childhood background brought up in childrens homes after his mother had departed for the United States and his first experiences of the racism that has defined so much of his life: the schoolfriend forbidden to play with him by his racist father, the London tobacconist who wouldnt serve a teenage Hercules for the same shocking reason. When he was first arrested as an innocent 16-year-old, he found himself beaten-up and racially abused by the police he had been taught to trust.

He became an armed robber, a career previously pretty much confined to white criminals and ended up, fairly predictably, being jailed for seven years. His description of his trial and the barristers black-caped Draculas with wigs is particularly telling. Time to be served in Brixton, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, Gartree and Parkhurst prisons was to follow where the main lessons he learned were of self-preservation and disrespect for much of authority.

As he explains in the book, he was a worse criminal when I left Parkhurst than Id been before. He had made many useful contacts inside and was now able to move freely between black and white members of the criminal fraternity. He found himself back to prison in 1999 but when he finally emerged he decided that he would not return and has stuck by that pledge.

The second part of the book is his reflection on why so many young black men and boys and so many of their white counterparts end up behind bars and how best to address that. This is what lies behind what he calls the Social Deprivation Mindset, which he explains in detail. He has worked hard to try and bring his theories to wider notice and influence Government policy on the subject what one might call a Herculean task. In the talks he has given at schools about what imprisonment is really like and to newly-arrived prisoners in some of our jails, he has already engaged successfully with young people at risk and believes that more can and should be done to stop them from suffering the sort of damage he has personally experienced.

Britain jails more people per head of population than any other country in western Europe and many of our over-crowded prisons are now little more than warehouses of drug addiction and fear with little chance of rehabilitating their ever-growing number of inmates. As more and more young men, many of them still in their teens, are jailed for fatal stabbings in gang fights over mainly pointless arguments about territory or respect, Hercules anger and concern could not be more timely. As he told me: You can see people crying now as they dont realise what theyve done, what murder is. They dont even know who the guy is theyve killed.

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