Crime Types A Text/Reader

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ISBN: 9780534593735 | 0534593739
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/8/2003

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This text/reader focuses on major types of crimes to illustrate the behavior, tendencies, and similarities and differences that are observable among criminals, victims, and situations. Overview materials are combined with key research and readings from the field, many of the selections feature ethnographic work that illustrates, from a criminal or victim's perspective, what it is like to "do crime."

1. THE TYPOLOGIES APPROACH TO CRIME
2. HOMICIDE AND ASSAULT
Luckenbill, D

(1977) Criminal homicide as situational transaction
Levi, K
(1981) Becoming a hit man: Neutralization in a very deviant career
Decker, S

(1996) Collective and normative features of gang violence
Sheley, J

and Wright, J

(1993) Motivations for gun possession and carrying among serious juvenile offenders
Ferraro, K

and Johnson, J

(1983) How women experience battering: the process of victimization
3. VIOLENT SEX CRIME
Scully, D
and Marolla, J
(1985) "Riding the bull at Gilley's": Convicted rapists describe the rewards of Rape
O'Sullivan, C

(1991) Acquaintance gang rape on campus
Bergen, R

(1996) Understanding women's experiences with wife rape
4. ROBBERY
Jacobs, B

and Wright, R
(1999) Stick-up, street culture, and offender motivation
Topalli, V
and Wright, R
(2004) Dubs and dees, beats and rims: Carjackers and urban violence
5. BURGLARY
Decker, S

Wright, R
Redfern, A
and Smith, D
(1993) A woman's place is in the home: Females and residential burglary
Walsh, M
and Chappell, D
(1974) Operational parameters in the stolen property system
6. COMMON PROPERTY CRIME
Cromwell, P
Curtis, J
and Withrow, B
(2004) The dynamics of petty crime: An analysis of shoplifting
Flemming, Z
(1999) The thrill of it all: youthful offenders and auto theft
7. PUBLIC ORDER CRIME
Hafley, S

and Tewksbury, R
(1996) Reefer madness in bluegrass country: Community structure and roles in the rural Kentucky marijuana industry
Faupel, C

and Klockars, C

(1987) Drugs-crime connections: Elaborations from the life histories of hard-core heroin addicts
Inciardia, J

O'Connell, D

and Saum, C

(2004) The Miami sex-for-crack market revisited
Phoenix, J
(2004) An analysis of women's involvement in prostitution
8. CRIME WITHIN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS
Matthews, R

and Kauzlarich, D
(2000) The crash of Valujet flight 592: a case study in state-corporate crime
Zukier, H
(1994) The twisted road to genocide: The psychological development of evil during the Holocaust
Dabney, D
and Hollinger, R

(2004) Recreational abusers and therapeutics self-medicators: Two criminal career trajectories among drug using pharmacists
9. PATTERNS AND PROSPECTS

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