Living Off Crime
Living Off Crime describes highly active property offenders who commit themselves to careers in serious property crimes such as burglary and armed robbery. This book takes the unique approach of situating these criminal careers within the fundamental sociological concepts of social class, criminal subcultures, and consciousness. Tunnell brings class back into the dialogue of property crime among the highly criminally active and economically marginalized, and gives considerable treatment to...
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This book is an explication of social class and the adjudication of repetitive property offenders within the under class. It describes their class-informed subculture and near absence of any politicized action or strategy.
1Crime and criminals12Social class and property crime73Culture and property crime294Consciousness and property crime575Victims and victimization736Explaining repetitive property crime87
\ Criminal Justice ReviewKenneth Tunnell's Living off Crime is an engaging, qualitative investigation of lower-class, persistent property offenders who use their criminal lifestyle and perceptions to inform the decision making that precedes street crime....Living off Crime is well worth reading.\ — Matt DeLisi, Iowa State University\ \
