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Addicted to Crime? J. R. HODGE, M. MCMURRAN & C. R. HOT T IN
Chichester, Wiley, 1997 238 pp, 16.99, ISBN 0-471-45777-1
Crime and addiction have some features in common. Both may be repetitive and generally involve some form of immediate gain, despite knowledge of disagreeable consequences. In this book, however, it is argued that some forms of crime are addictive behaviours, and that responses to crime may be informed by responses to addiction.
In the opening chapter, Brown finds current definitions of addiction to be inadequate and offers his very own concept of "a hedonic management model of the addictions", the key feature of which is failure of the mechanism for planning and managing...