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Study constitutes all the convicted thieves lodged in some selected prisons of Assam, India

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Pathways of Persistent Thieves -- Carl Horton -- Brian Biluszek -- Robert Timmons -- Roger Morton -- Michael Preston -- Red Jackson -- A Look Ahead -- Notes -- 2 Origins, Options, and Preparation -- Wealth, Subordination, and Repute -- Family and Peer Group -- Cultural Constraints -- Class, Constraints, and Decisions -- Class and Compliance -- Notes -- 3 Changing Criminal Opportunities and the Unskilled -- Historical Change and Criminal Opportunities -- The Growth of Fraud -- Entrepreneurial Options -- Enticing Munificence -- Crime Specialization -- The Contemporary Scene -- Notes -- 4 Identity, Lifestyle, and Character -- Criminal Identities -- Noncriminal Identity -- Life as Party -- Identity and Character Projects -- Lifestyle and Identity as Choice -- Notes -- 5 Career Changes and Termination -- Careers and Career Variation -- Contingencies and Transitions -- Desistance as Choice -- Career Change as Interaction -- Notes -- 6 Threats, Decisions, and Confinement -- Decisionmaking -- The Prison Experience -- Notes -- 7 Crime Control and Persistent Thieves -- Class and Choice -- Identity, Context, and Mood -- Life Course and Calculation -- Unintended Consequences of Harshness -- Intelligent Sanctioning -- Notes -- Appendix: Materials and Methods -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Standing in an ID parade of incompetence, waiting to be picked out as Britain's stupidest criminal, we've assembled a line-up of bungling burglars, asinine assailants and thick thieves. Meet the man who handed himself in to claim the 'wanted' reward money and the bank robber who couldn't escape the building society because he was repeatedly pushing the pull door - until he took a run up and knocked himself out. Joining them inside HMP Stupid is a shoplifter who cunningly removed the security chips from items, only to stuff the tags into his pocket. Plus a pill-popping ninety-two year old who

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Note -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword - Sexually Bewitched -- Introduction - Beware the Sex Thieves! -- Chapter one - Sex, Crisis, and Witchcraft -- Chapter two - Strangers in Town -- Chapter three - Shivers and Lynchings -- Chapter four - Witchcraft, New Style -- Chapter five - Danger: No Greeting -- Chapter six - The Foreigner -- Chapter seven - Front-Page News -- Chapter eight - "Everything is in Place" -- Chapter nine - To Believe or Not To Believe -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index

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