What your 1st-grade life says about the rest of it

So I'm strongly recommending On the Run by Alice Goffman.  Ms. Goffman spent years in a Philadelphia ghetto following the lives of several young men and how their legal woes impacted their lives and the lives of others.  It was a fascinating book and the methodology section at the back was almost as interesting as the work that it generated in front.  In the wake of Ferguson, it's a timely read.

On a related note, I found this pretty interesting... 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/08/29/what-your-1st-grade-life-says-about-the-rest-of-it/