Darrell J. Steffensmeier - Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise
Here you can read online Darrell J. Steffensmeier - Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2005, publisher: Aldine Transaction, genre: Home and family. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:
Romance novel
Science fiction
Adventure
Detective
Science
History
Home and family
Prose
Art
Politics
Computer
Non-fiction
Religion
Business
Children
Humor
Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.
![No cover](/templates/la/images/nocover.jpg)
- Book:Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise
- Author:
- Publisher:Aldine Transaction
- Genre:
- Year:2005
- Rating:4 / 5
- Favourites:Add to favourites
- Your mark:
Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise: summary, description and annotation
We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.
*Recipient of the American Society of Criminologys 2006 Michael J. Hindelang Award for a book, published within the past three calendar years, that is the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.
*Nominated for the 2007 Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Sam Goodman, was a long-time thief, fence, and quasi-legitimate businessman. He had a criminal career that spanned fifty years, beginning in his mid-teens and ending with his death when he was in his mid-sixties. Confessions of a Dying Thief is an in-depth ethnographic study of Sam and his world based on continuous contact with him for many years, on multiple interviews with his network of associates in crime and business, and on a series of interviews with him shortly before he died.
The book updates and greatly expands the case study of Sam Goodmans fencing activity found in Steffensmeiers award-winning 1986 book The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds. It combines Sams colorful narrative accounts with substantive commentary by the authors to provide a more nuanced portrayal of criminal careers, illegal enterprise, and the broad landscape comprising the entity called crime. To more fully understand pathways into and out of crime as well as the social organization of illegal enterprise, the authors propose an integrative learning-opportunity-commitment framework that combines differential association/social learning theory and an extended conceptualization of criminal opportunity with a three-fold theory of commitment to crime. This framework offers an integrated and more complete way of understanding mechanisms that underlie criminal offending and criminal careers. It also recognizes the complexity and scope of the criminal landscape and its embeddedness in the fabric of the larger society, including its criminal justice system.
Sams illness and death are a sobering backdrop throughout the whole book. However, Confessions is not just a dying thiefs intimate confessions. Rather, it is a rare and penetrating journey into the dynamics of criminal careers and the social organization of criminal enterprise, as experienced by a veteran thief and fence and his network of key associates.
Darrell J. Steffensmeier: author's other books
Who wrote Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.