@article{ref1,
title="Carjacking, Streetlife and Offender Motivation",
journal="British journal of criminology",
year="2003",
author="Jacobs, Bruce A. and Topalli, Volkan and Wright, Roosevelt",
volume="43",
number="4",
pages="673-688",
abstract="For all of the media attention it has received in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, carjacking remains an under-researched and poorly understood crime. In this article, we explore the decision-making processes of active carjackers in real-life settings and circumstances, focusing on the subjective foreground conditions that move such offenders from an unmotivated state to one in which they are determined to act. Drawing from semi-structured ethnographic interviews with 28 active carjackers in St Louis, Missouri, we argue that while the decision to commit a carjacking stems most directly from a situated interaction between particular sorts of perceived opportunities and particular sorts of perceived needs and desires, this decision is activated, mediated, and shaped by participation in urban street culture.<p />",
language="",
issn="0007-0955",
doi="10.1093/bjc/43.4.673",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/43.4.673"
}