Great pretenders
Subtitle: pursuits and careers of persistent thieves
By: Neal Shover.
Series: Crime & society; Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Burglary -- United States -- Case studies; Thieves -- United States
Description: Persistent thieves - criminals who resume committing crimes of burglary, robbery, vehicle theft, and ordinary theft despite previous attempts to stop - are a main focal point of American criminology and criminal justice. Great Pretenders is based on the author's original studies and previously published research and on more than fifty autobiographies of persistent thieves.

Shover uses a crime-as-choice framework and a life-course perspective to make sense of important decisions and changes in the lives of persistent thieves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-211) and index.