Building your own lifeboat: Working-class male offenders talk about economic crime

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 445-460

  Willott, Sara ^b   Griffin, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRIME; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEFT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CRIME; ENGLAND; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; RATIONALIZATION; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THEFT;

EID: 0040034577     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466699164266     Document Type: Article

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