Armed robbers : identity and cultural mythscapes in the lucky country / Emmeline Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Emmeline (Convenor of criminology), author.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Clarendon studies in criminology

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robbery--Australia--History.

Robbery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This title offers a frank account of the experiences of convicted armed robbers suffused with moral ambiguities. Notoriously difficult to access, armed robbers have mostly eluded the attempts of authors to access their lives. Aside from biographies of the most infamous, the stories of armed robbers, as varied, bizarre, and captivating as they are, have rarely been told. This has resulted in robbers being considered as largely homogenous; their unique pathways to crime ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotypes. Yet their routes into one of the most serious violent crimes could not be more varied. Written by a leading female criminologist, 'Armed Robbers' relays the powerful, sometimes amusing, often harrowing stories of 42 convicted criminals in Australia.

Contents:

Part One: Encounters

1: Introduction

2: The Edge of Reason: Affective Transgression

3: Prison Research

Part Two: Identity and Performance

4: The Lucky Country: National Mythscapes and the Australian Dream

5: Becoming an Armed Robber: Performativity and Affect

6: Doing Rob (and Getting Away with It): Planning and Process

Part Three: Rewards

7: The Usual Suspects: Cash and Drugs

8: The Magic Carpet Ride: Flow, Affect, and Automaticity

Part Four: Such is Life

9: Getting Caught and Doing Time

10: Conclusion: Such Is Life: Affect, Fatalism, and Crime.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2022).

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-259731-0

0-19-259732-9

0-19-188906-7