About Criminals

A View of the Offenders' World
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4129-9944-1
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 629 g

About Criminals: A View of the Offenders' World, Second Edition presents students with recent and important research on criminal behavior. The articles in this anthology, all based on actual field studies, provide the reader with a realistic portrayal of just what actual offenders say about crime and their participation in it. The offenders' voices, along with the researchers' analyses, offer students a real-life view of what, how, and why various criminals behave the way they do. The readings explore a wide array of specific types of criminal behavior, covering the majority of types found in almost every standard criminology text. Each article has been selected for its ability to artfully portray the perspective of those offenders being studied and its readability for students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pogrebin, Mark R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
PART I: Property Crimes
1. Understanding Adolescent Property Crime Using a Delinquent Events Perspective - Vera Lopez
2. Street Life and the Rewards of Auto Theft, by Heith Copes - Heith Copes
3. Gender, Social Networks, and Residential Burglary - Christopher Mullins and Richard Wright
PART II: Violent Crimes
4. Retrospective Accounts of Violent Events by Gun Offenders - Mark Pogrebin, Paul Stretesky, N. Prabha Unnithan, and Gerald Venor
5. Dubs and Dees, Beats and Rims: Carjackers and Urban Violence - Volkan Topalli and Richard Wright
6. Gangstas, Thugs and Hustlas: Identity and the Code of the Street in Rap Music - Charis Kubrin
PART III: Sex Crimes
7. Street Smarts and Urban Myths: Women, Sex Work, and the Role of Storytelling in Risk Reduction and Rationalization - Brenda Roche, Alan Neaigus, and Maureen Miller
8.Accounts of Professional Misdeeds: The Sexual Exploitation of Clients by Psychotherapists - Mark Pogrebin, Eric Poole, and Amos Martinez
9.Constructing Coercion: The Organization of Sexual Assault - Brian Monahan and Joseph Morolla
PART IV: Gangs and Crime
From Punk Kids to Public Enemy Number One - Pete Simi, Lowell Smith, and Ann M.S. Reeser
11. Gang-Related Gun Violence: Socialization, Identity, and Self - Paul Stretesky and Mark Pogrebin
12. Young Mother (in the) Hood: Gang Girls’ Negotiation of New Identities - Molly Moloney, Geoffrey Hunt, Karen Joe-Laidler,

PART V: White Collar–Occupational Crime
13. Dialing for Dollars: Opportunities, Justifications, and Telemarketing Fraud - Neal Shover, Glenn Coffey, and Clinton Sanders
14. Understanding Identity Theft: Offenders’ Accounts of their Lives and Crimes - Heith Copes and Lynne Vieraitis
15.Transferring Subcultural Knowledge On-Line: Practices and Beliefs of Persistent Digital Pirates - Thomas Holt and Heith Copes
PART VI: Drugs and Crime
16. Cooks are like Gods: Hierarchies in Methamphetamine-Producing Groups - Robert Jenkot
17.We Weren’t Like no Regular Dope Fiends: Negotiating Hustler and Crackhead Identities - Heith Copes, Andy Hochstetler, and J. Patrick Williams
18.Writing Against the Image of the Monstrous Crack Mother - Aline Gubrium
PART VII: Gender and Crime
19. Moving Beyond Stereotypes: Women’s Subjective Accounts of their Violent Crime - Candace Kruttschnitt and Kristin Carbone-Lopez
20. The Work of Sex Work: Elite Prostitutes’ Vocational Orientations and Experiences - Ann Lucas
21. Mothering, Crime and Incarceration - Kathleen Ferraro and Angela Moe
PART VIII: Support Systems and Crime
22.The Familial Relationships of Former Prisoners: Examining the Link Between Residence and Informal Support Mechanisms - Damian Martinez and Johnna Christian
23.On the Ropes: Londa and Derek - Donald Braman
24. Leaving the Streets: Transformation of Prostitute Identity within the Prostitution Rehabilitation Program - Sharon Oselin
25.Me and the Law is not Friends”: How Former Prisoners Make Sense of Reentry - Lucia Trimbur
26. The Love of a Good Man? Romantic Relationships as a Source of Support or Hindrance of Female Ex-Offenders - Andrea Leverentz

Über Autor(innen)

Pogrebin, Mark R.
Mark R. Pogrebin is a Professor and Director of Criminal Justice in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver. He has conducted numerous field studies in the areas of police undercover work, tragic events, Afro-American policewomen, emotion management, women jailers, psychotherapists’ deviant behavior with clients, women in prison and on parole, and the strategic uses of humor among police. He has published three books and numerous journal articles and has had over twenty of his publications reprinted in anthologies.  Professor Pogrebin has his M.A. from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. A nationally-recognized authority in the field of criminal justice, Dr. Pogrebin held faculty positions at Florida State University and the University of Iowa prior to joining SPA in 1976. His present interests lie in the areas of criminology and penology, sociology of law and organizations, administration of justice, deviant behavior, and qualitative research methods.