Tourism-related Crime: Towards a Sociology of Crime and Tourism

The purpose of this article is to: (1) categorize tourist-related crime, (2) relate these types of crimes to current criminological theories, and (3) place tourist-related crime into the broader social context. Through this analysis, a conceptual framework was developed to specify the factors determ...

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Autor principal: Cohen, Erik (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1997
En:Año: 1997
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Sumario:The purpose of this article is to: (1) categorize tourist-related crime, (2) relate these types of crimes to current criminological theories, and (3) place tourist-related crime into the broader social context. Through this analysis, a conceptual framework was developed to specify the factors determining the probabilities and the potential rates of success of certain kinds of offenders against different types of tourists in various situations