Crime Types A Text/Reader

by Dabney, Dean A.

• ISBN13: 9780534593735
• ISBN10: 0534593739
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-08
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

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."

Table of Contents

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