In Their Own Words : Criminals on Crime
ISBN: 9780199920051 | 0199920052
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/4/2013
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The only anthology of its kind, In Their Own Words: Criminals on Crime, Sixth Edition, provides students with a nuanced perspective on how--and why--offenders make decisions that lead them to commit crimes.
Featuring firsthand accounts from gang members, burglars, shoplifters, pimps, prostitutes, killers, robbers, addicts, rapists, drug smugglers, and white-collar offenders, the anthology helps students understand the offenders' motives, perceptions, decision-making strategies, and rationalizations for crime.
Brief int... MORE
Featuring firsthand accounts from gang members, burglars, shoplifters, pimps, prostitutes, killers, robbers, addicts, rapists, drug smugglers, and white-collar offenders, the anthology helps students understand the offenders' motives, perceptions, decision-making strategies, and rationalizations for crime.
Brief int... MORE
Each Section opens with an Introduction.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Section I. Doing Fieldwork with Offenders
1. Researching Crack Dealers: Dilemmas and Contradictions, Bruce A. Jacobs
2. Consenting to Talk: Why Inmates Participate in Prison Research, Heith Copes and Andy Hochstetler
Section II. Criminal Lifestyles and Decision Making
3. The Socially Bounded Decision Making of Persistent Property Offenders, Neal Shover and David Honaker
4. Deciding to Commit... MORE
Paul Cromwell is Professor of Public Administration at the University of South Florida.
Michael L. Birzer is Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the School of Community Affairs at Wichita State University.
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