This is the first textbook available from the Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series about burglars--why they do what they do, how they do it, and what the general public can do to protect themselves. The authors analyze the decision-making processes employed by burglars and discuss what rational processes are used when contemplating burglary. How do residential burglars select their targets? What environmental factors are used as discriminative cues in target selection? What marketing strategies and outlets do burglars use to fence their stolen goods? Cromwell and Olson also look at the desistance process to help students understand circumstances that may lead offenders to end their criminal activities.

Breaking and Entering: Burglars on Burglary

Politics & Social Sciences

Cromwell, Paul F.

Olson, James N.

Social Sciences

Wadsworth Publishing

Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary (Studies in Crime, Law, and Criminal Justice)

How do burglars go about their business? What do they fail to do before, during and after a crime? How do they perceive the criminal justice system and its sanctions? Breaking and Entering answers these questions and others concerned with the decision-making processes which burglars employ. The authors use a sensitive ethnographic method which has resulted in a detailed account of the `criminal mind′; they explore the minutiae of `fencing′ stolen goods and an assessment of the extent to which the criminal justice system deters, or perhaps encourages, the initiating or continuing of a criminal career.

Avary, D′Aunn W.

Sage Publications, Inc.

Eighty Steps: Tales on College Teaching

Education & Teaching

Moreland, Clark T.

Higher & Continuing Education

Independently published

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