Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade: Violence and Vengeance

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Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the material and emotional gains and losses to offenders and victims, and offers policy recommendations to reduce occurrences of this common crime.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLean, Robert (Author)
Contributors: Densley, James A. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Edition:1st ed.
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Robbery
Drug traffic
Electronic books
Raub > Drogenhandel > Jugendbande > Organisiertes Verbrechen > Täter > Opfer > Sozialpsychologie
Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:Uniquely focusing on robberies involving drug dealers and users, this book considers the material and emotional gains and losses to offenders and victims, and offers policy recommendations to reduce occurrences of this common crime.
Front Cover -- Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade: Violence and Vengeance -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Notes on the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- One On Robbery -- Putting this book (and robbery) in context -- Data sources and methods -- Looking ahead -- Two From Robbing Places to Robbing People -- Working for the man -- Adapting to change: starting a robbery career -- Concluding remarks -- Three The Will to Rob -- Robbing for money … and what money can buy -- Psychopharmacological and economic-compulsive robbery -- Debt and debt-bondage as motives for robbery -- When 'the action is the juice' -- Concluding remarks -- Four Robbery in Action -- Victim selection and the 'performance' of robbery -- Getting played -- Concluding remarks -- Fiver Trust No One -- Robbing Peter to pay Paul -- I thought we were mates? Intra-gang robbery -- Concluding remarks -- Six Life After Robbery -- Concluding remarks -- Seven Conclusion -- Implications for practice and policy -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (138 pages)
ISBN:9781529223934