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Crime as Work

Peter Letkemann

出版	Prentice-Hall, 1973
ISBN	01319291439780131929142
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZHoiAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This is a book about safecrackers, bank robbers, B & E men, hotel prowlers, and other "rounders"-- none of them members of organized crime, but all of them experienced criminals. Based on interviews both inside and outside of prison, Letkemann examines the work habits of these men, the learning of the necessary skills, the choice of a criminal "line", and the various factors, both social and technical, which affect a criminal's modus operandi. He uncovers a curious "work ethic" , including pride of workmanship, the criminal's response to new technology (e.g. better safes and electronic alarms), the class divison of crime, and even to the schools of crime -- our prisons -- showing that criminal life is comparable in many ways to the structure and goals of straight society.