NCCD Research Review : Life in the Fast Lane: a Retrospective View By Commercial Thieves

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[In this issue of the Journal, the NCCD Research Centers are deferring their usual opportunity to present a report on their own work in order to share, with the Journal's readers, some interim findings from an important research effort that is still in progress. Through the strong collaborative lanks that exist between NCCD and the Graduate School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, we have been following with interest the research being conducted in the School's Center for the Study of Crime for Gain, a project funded by the National Institute of Justice and directed by Professor Richard Sparks. Ceding the "NCCD Research Review" space to a report solicited from our colleagues at Rutgers represents a small contribution on our part toward alleviating a chronic problem faced by researchers: the seemingly interminable lag time between the initiation of a research project and the public availability of the project's findings.] This article contains an analysis of interviews with commercial thieves. Both the interviews and analysis of them were shaped by the perspective that certain kinds of crime are like certain kinds of work. The article describes a variety of methods for illegally acquiring and distributing commercial goods, paths of entry into the business of commercial theft, and the relation between the work of the thief and his life style.

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