By the age of fifteen, Willie James Bosket Jr. claimed he had committed two thousand crimes, including two hundred armed robberies and twenty-five stabbings. Even allowing for youthful braggadocio, the figure was impressive. Willie was supposed to have been under the supervision of the Division for Youth, New York’s juvenile justice agency. Willie had learned the code of the street at a very young age, just as his father had in Augusta – that the secret to survival was a willingness to use violence, to be always ready to fight. The psychiatrist who saw Willie was Dr. Mahin Hassibi, the doctor in charge of the children’s unit. Slight and short, with narrow eyes, straight dark hair, and a gentle, self-composed manner, she looked like a figure in a miniature Persian painting from her native Iran. Willie’s file with the Bureau of Child Welfare was rapidly growing longer in 1971 and early 1972 when he was eight and nine.