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Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary

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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 ...

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Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary 1991, SAGE Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780803940260

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Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary 1990, Sage Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780803940277

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