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Burglars on the Job
Richard T. Wright, Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scott H Decker, Scott H. Decker
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Overview
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.
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- Publisher
- UPNE
- Published
- 2011-12-01
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Criminology
- ISBN-13
- 9781555537852
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