num_pages: 248
description: Winner of the SSSP Crime and Delinquency Outstanding Scholarship Award (1995) Through extensive and candid interviews, the authors of this ground-breaking work have studied burglars' decision-making processes within the context of their streetlife culture. In this volume they present their findings in the areas of motivation, target selection, methods of entering and searching a residence, and methods of selling stolen goods, concluding with a discussion of the theoretical implications of their research.
language: English
title: Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
titlecomplete: Burglars On The Job: Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
genres: Economics, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 54
publisher: Northeastern University Press