The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: Implications for criminal persistence

Cognition and Crime: Offender Decision Making and Script Analyses

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 48-69

  Copes, Heith ^a   Cherbonneau, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203083482     Document Type: Chapter

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