Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cromwell, Paul F.
• Birzer, Michael L., 1960-

Description

xxi, 442 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Criminology > Fieldwork
• Crime > Research
• Criminals > Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Call Number

JFE 13-6337

ISBN

• 9780199920051 (alk. paper)
• 0199920052 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2012033668

OCLC

809365691

Title

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

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Edition

Sixth edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Cromwell, Paul F., editor.

Birzer, Michael L., 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-6337