Feeding the Criminal Element

I make no qualms about being all for capital punishment but I think in today's society we as a culture have decide that being a criminal is acceptable as well as praised and i for one don't get it at all. Explain to me why the youth of today are all of sudden idolizing murders, pimps, drug dealers, and gangsters. I work at book store and in the recent year I've seen a few things that just don't make any sense to me. One is the recent publication of a Mob Lifestyles magazine I mean what the hell I've seen some weird titles on magazines but nothing to ever make me scratch my head as much as a mag glorifying the gangsta(look at me being hip) life. But that's just one thing, over the past year I would hate to tell you how many phone calls or ship to home orders I've taken for sending books to jails or detention centers. Don't get me wrong I'm all for books that might help with some rehabilitation but that is never what is ordered. The books ordered the most are usually African American fiction like True to the Game one, two, or three and Dutch one, two, or three. Both books have criminals as their main characters. The worst orders happened this past week when i had one woman want to order two or three books on drug trafficking for her son in prison. I mean the fact that he was in prison shows me he couldn't get it right the first time, what a good mom ordering him some research material so he doesn't make the same mistakes. Another mom wanted to order her son a few books about the Aryan brotherhood and Nazi culture including Hitler's Mein Kamph. Gee, son i know you're in prison but I want to send you some books that will make you hate most of society more. I just don't understand where our society took a turn for worse and if it was up to me I wouldn't allow these books to go to the prisons but then again I also think the whole three strike rule is a little lenient as well. Maybe we should learn from history in the way they treated criminals I'm all for cutting off the hands of thieves and the death penalty for murderers whether they are insane are not.