Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
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Category : Automobile theft
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance
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Category : Automobile supplies industry
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Category : Automobile theft
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
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Category : Automobile theft
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1312

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Author: John A. Heitmann
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421412985
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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The technology-thwarting car thief has become as advanced as the cars themselves. As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model styles and colors eventually changed, but so did the means of making a stolen car disappear. Though changing license plates and serial numbers remain basic procedure, thieves have created highly sophisticated networks to disassemble stolen vehicles, distribute the parts, and/or ship the altered cars out of the country. Stealing cars has become as technologically advanced as the cars themselves. John A. Heitmann and Rebecca H. Morales’s study of automobile theft and culture examines a wide range of related topics that includes motives and methods, technological deterrents, place and space, institutional responses, international borders, and cultural reflections. Only recently have scholars begun to move their focus away from the creators and manufacturers of the automobile to its users. Stealing Cars illustrates the power of this approach, as it aims at developing a better understanding of the place of the automobile in the broad texture of American life. There are many who are fascinated by aspects of automobile history, but many more readers enjoy the topic of crime—motives, methods, escaping capture, and of course solving the crime and bringing criminals to justice. Stealing Cars brings together expertise from the history of technology and cultural history as well as city planning and transborder studies to produce a compelling and detailed work that raises questions concerning American priorities and values. Drawing on sources that include interviews, government documents, patents, sociological and psychological studies, magazines, monographs, scholarly periodicals, film, fiction, and digital gaming, Heitmann and Morales tell a story that highlights both human creativity and some of the paradoxes of American life.

Author: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys
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Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Author: Congressional Information Service
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Author: Congressional Information Service
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1036

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