Great pretenders: pursuits and careers of persistent thieves

Persistent thieves - criminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stop - are a main focal point of American criminology and criminal justice. Great Pretenders is based on the author's original studies and previously...

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Main Author: Shover, Neal (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder [u.a.] Westview Press 1996
Series:Crime & society
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Summary:Persistent thieves - criminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stop - are a main focal point of American criminology and criminal justice. Great Pretenders is based on the author's original studies and previously published research and on more than fifty autobiographies of persistent thieves. Shover uses a crime-as-choice framework and a life-course perspective to make sense of important decisions and changes in the lives of persistent thieves.
Physical Description:XVI, 219 S.
ISBN:0813387302
081332811X

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