Armed robbers : identity and cultural mythscapes in the lucky country /
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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | This edition also issued in print: 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : illustrations (colour). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191889066 0191889067 0192597310 9780192597311 0192597329 9780192597328 |