Heavy Business Commercial Burglary and Robbery Routledge Library Editions: Criminology Series
Auteur : Walsh Dermot
Originally published in 1986. Based on interviews with men in prison, this study takes two groups of convicted criminals: men convicted of robbery, and, for comparison, a sample of men convicted for breaking into commercial premises. It focuses on how victims are chosen, the decision-making processes involved, and the characteristics of those selected and those rejected as unsuitable potential victim material. Also described are the pattern of the crime (time, place, gain), and the ways in which people become involved in it. Allowing several convicted robbers describe in their own way why they did it and what they thought and felt about it, Dermot Walsh presents a disquieting picture, in which robbery appears to be an attractive proposition to several different groups of men, facing quite different circumstances, and for different reasons.
Preface 1. Burglars: Personnel 2. Burglaries: Events 3. Robbers: Personnel 4. Robberies: Events 5. Robberies: Victims and Aftermath 6. Conclusions. Notes and references
Date de parution : 07-2020
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 03-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Men; Search Lights; crime city; Photo Judgments; crime community; Girl Friend; crime displacement; Good Life; crime distribution; Lengthy Business; crime environment; Sneak Thieves; Skilled Burglar; crime history; Fight Back; crime location; Space Invader Machines; Common Base Line; Outer Door; crime society; High Destructive Potential; crime town planning; criminal behaviour; criminology community; criminology environment; criminology history; criminology society; property crime; social sciences crime; burglary