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This 3 page paper answers questions about burglary, based on interviews with three burglars.
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and their careers. Discussion Reading the interviews with the three burglars is depressing, saddening, and infuriating. On one hand, a dispassionate person would have to feel sorry for a young
person who was so defeated by life that they had turned to crime before they finished high school. But on the other, theres a part of even the most compassionate
person that wants to say "How dare you! Keep your hands off my stuff! You want it, you work for it like I did!" But work seems to be the
furthest thing from the minds of these distressingly young criminals. What is the process of becoming a burglar like? For the three burglars interviewed, getting started seems to be mostly
a matter of peer pressure. One girl began stealing at age 13 because her boyfriend was already a burglar and he threatened her with bodily harm if she didnt help
him. A second went along with her friends because they were all doing it. And the third had a similar story: her boyfriend said something about "doing" a house. She
didnt know what he meant, but he said it was an easy way to make money, so she went along. In all these cases, the burglar is (or presents herself)
as someone who is so under the influence of her friends that she literally has no choice in the case. Peer pressure at this age is intense; friends have much
more influence over a teenager than anyone else, even parents, so this is not entirely unimaginable. Still, it sounds a lot like an excuse: "Poor me, I couldnt help myself
so even though Im a thief I really dont deserve to be punished." How are burglaries organized? This is an individual thing, but most times its rare for a burglar
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