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Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods (2013)
Journal Article
Patel, T. (2013). Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 23(4), 500-513. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2013.773202

Using qualitative data collected from an empirical study that focused on theft-related activity in a U.K. high crime area, the motivations and purchase patterns of occasional buyers of stolen goods are considered. In doing so, it is argued that as an... Read More about Hot goods in happy hands: Occasional user accounts and motivations for buying stolen goods.