The Modus Operandi of Burglary in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boran Ali Mercan (0000-0002-1125-7528, Ankara University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-63 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azy028 |
| OpenAlex | W2883719074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
Much of criminology has recently tended to replace the sociological concept of professional criminal or ‘good thief’ by the psychological concept of ‘expertise’ that draws attention to the cognitive processing of individualized offenders who automatically become aware of burglary-related cues. Setting out the experiences of a group of ex-offenders in the capital of Turkey, this article proposes the dispositional theory of action in understanding the modus operandi of burglary and further argues that professional burglary is a collective form of action made possible by the combination of bodily and mental dispositions capitalized within an internal organization of burglary. This article not only reveals the intrinsic operational logic of burglary in a non-Western context but also takes the first step in arousing scholarly interest to study the modus operandi of professional burglary specifically in Turkey.
Business · Computer security · Criminology · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law in Society and Culture
Code of the street
Breaking and entering
Crime and Everyday Life
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Confessions of a Dying Thief
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Professional Thief
Nodes, paths and edges
The Logic of Practice
Residential Burglary in the Republic of Ireland
The Socially Bounded Decision Making of Persistent Property Offenders
Burglars on the Job, Streetlife and Residential Break-ins
Burglary
Expert Decision Making in Burglars
How Do Residential Burglars Select Target Areas
Putting Habitus in its Place
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Habitus as Topic and Tool
Techniques of Neutralization
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
A Concise Genealogy and Anatomy of Habitus
Choosing Crime
The Social Organization of Burglary
The making of the professional criminal in Turkey
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |