Copycat Crime and Copycat Criminals /

Copycat Crime and Copycat Criminals / / Ray Surette.

How prevalent is copycat crime? Can we accurately identify it? What role does the media play in encouraging it? These are among the questions that Ray Surette addresses in his comprehensive study of the nature of copycat crime, both past and present, and the forces that drive it. Surette goes beyond...

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Surette, Ray,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (241 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Nature of Copycat Crime
  • 2 Copycat Crime in Theory
  • 3 Copycat Effects in Practice
  • 4 Measuring Copycat Crime
  • 5 Imitation, Contagion, Diffusion
  • 6 An Interdisciplinary Perspective
  • 7 Crimes, Criminals, and Environments
  • 8 Copycat Crime Across the Media
  • 9 What We Know— and Don’t Know— About Copycat Crime
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book

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