SOC446H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Extortion, Internment Of Japanese Americans, Making Money
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Chapter4: identity lifestyle and character turns from discussion of how some persistent thieves embrace a criminal identity and so me implications of this. Identity and character concerns, for example, can play an import ant part in decisions whether or not to get involved in crime. Much of chapter 4 is devoted to a description of life as party, the immediate context for some of the most important decisions made by persistent thieves. Its constraining and distorting effect on their calculations and their approach to potential arrest will be highlighted. For persistent thieves their crimes in part spring from strong and enduring identification with crime as a means of livelihood. Identification with crime means the degree to which one sees it as an attractive and potentially bountiful source of income and livelihood or simply as a readily available means of resolving immediate problems. All who persist at direct-contact theft do not identify with crime equally.
