Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law

by Bruce Jacobs and Bruce A. Jacobs

Book Overview

This volume fills a research gap of striking proportions by exploring the contingencies that mediate the crimes perpetrated on those who are themselves perpetrators. The notion that violence is something that happens only to law-abiding citizens is both widely held and inaccurate. The disproportionate share of victims of crime are, in reality, themselves involved in crime. Yet existing scholarship has failed to explore the contingencies that mediate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202306488
• ISBN13: 9780202306483
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"