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Robbery in the illegal drugs trade : violence and vengeance / Robert McLean, James A. Densley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLean, Robert, author.
- Densley, James A., author.
- Series:
- Bristol shorts research.
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Bristol shorts research
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robbery.
- Drug dealers--Crimes against.
- Drug dealers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 129 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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'
- Four Robbery in Action
- Victim selection and the 'performance' of robbery
- Getting played
- Fiver Trust No One
- Robbing Peter to pay Paul
- I thought we were mates? Intra-gang robbery
- Six Life After Robbery
- Seven Conclusion
- Implications for practice and policy
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: McLean, Robert Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade
- ISBN:
- 9781529223941
- 1529223946
- 9781529223927
- 152922392X
- 9781529223934
- 1529223938
- OCLC:
- 1292352646
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