Living Off Crime

• Author(s): Kenneth D. Tunnell,
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
• Pages: 125
• ISBN_10: 0742541967
  ISBN_13: 9780742541962
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws , Law / General , Law / Criminal Law / General , Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Reference , Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ,

Description:... "Living off Crime is a sociological exploration of highly active property offenders who commit themselves to careers in serious property crimes, such as burglary and armed robbery. This book takes the unique approach of situating these criminal careers within the fundamental sociological concepts of social class, criminal subcultures, and consciousness. Kenneth D. Tunnell brings class back into the dialogue of property crime among the highly criminally active and economically marginalized, and gives considerable treatment to the subcultural values of this group. The book does not ignore the politics of repetitive property offenders' behaviours; rather, it describes their actions as political, yet absent of politicized class-based consciousness and strategies."--BOOK JACKET.