In their own words : criminals on crime : an anthology / Paul Cromwell, University of South Florida, Michael L. Birzer, Wichita State University.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cromwell, Paul F. (Editor)
Birzer, Michael L., 1960- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Edition:Sixth Edition.
Subjects:
Criminology > Fieldwork.
Crime > Research.
Criminals > Research.
Physical Description:xxi, 442 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Criminal lifestyles and decision making
  • Researching crack dealers : dilemmas and contradictions / Bruce A. Jacobs
  • Why i'll talk : offenders' motives for participating in qualitative research / Heith Copes and Andy Hochstetler
  • The socially bounded decision making of persistent property offenders / Neal Shover and David Honaker
  • Deciding to commit a burglary / Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker
  • Opportunities and decisions : interactional dynamics in robbery and burglary groups / Andy Hochstetler
  • Property crime
  • Establishing connections : gender, motor vehicle theft and disposal networks / Christopher W. Mullins and Michael C. Cherbonneau
  • The devil made me do it / Paul Cromwell and Quint Thurman
  • Identity theft : assessing offenders' motivations and strategies / Heith Copes
  • Violent crime
  • Gendering violence : masculinity and power in men's accounts of domestic / Kristin L. Anderson and Debra Umberson
  • Serendipity in robbery target selection / Bruce Jacobs
  • Accounting for lethal and sub-lethal violence violence / Fiona S. Brookman
  • Occupational crime
  • Crime on the line : telemarketing and the changing nature of professional crime / Neal Shover, Glenn S. Coffey, and Dick Hobbs
  • Drugged druggists : the convergence of two criminal career trajectories / Dean Dabney and Richard Hollinger
  • Denying the guilty mind : accounting for involvement in a white-collar crime / Michael L. Benson
  • Illegal occupations
  • The "myth of organization" of international drug smugglers / Scott H. Decker and Jana S. Benson
  • The second step in double jeopardy : appropriating the labor of female street hustlers / Kim Romenesko and Eleanor M. Miller
  • Dealing careers / Patricia A. Adler
  • Gangs and crime
  • Gang-related gun violence : socialization, identity, and self / Paul B. Stretesky and Mark R. Pogrebin
  • Gender and victimization risk among young women in gangs / Jody Miller
  • Voices from the barrio : gangs, families and communities / Marjorie Zatz and Edwardo L. Portillos
  • Drugs and crime
  • The drugs-crime connection among stable addicts / Charles E. Faupel
  • "E" is for ecstasy : a participant observation study of ecstasy use / Wilson R. Palacios and Melissa E. Fenwick
  • Cooks are like gods : hierarchies among methamphetamine producing groups / Robert Jenkot
  • Trafficking in bodily perfection : examining the late-modern steroid marketplace and its criminalization / Peter B. Kraska, Charles R. Bussard and John H. Brent
  • Quitting crime
  • Aging criminals : changes in the criminal calculus / Neal Shover
  • Getting out of the life : desistance by female street offenders / Ira Sommers, Deborah R. Baskin and Jeffery Fagan.