Winner of the SSSP Crime and Delinquency Outstanding Scholarship Award (1995)
Through extensive and candid interviews, the authors of this ground-breaking work have studied burglars' decision-making processes within the context of their streetlife culture. In this volume they present their findings in the areas of motivation, target selection, methods of entering and searching a residence, and methods of selling stolen goods, concluding with a discussion of the theoretical implications of their research.
Product details
Publisher : Northeastern; Revised ed. edition (Feb. 15 1996)
Language : English
Paperback : 248 pages
ISBN-10 : 1555532713
ISBN-13 : 978-1555532710
Item weight : 363 g
Dimensions : 15.32 x 1.88 x 22.89 cm
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