NCJ Number
89312
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 29 Issue: 2 Dated: (April 1983) Pages: 213-227
Date Published
1983
Length
15 pages
Annotation
Popular discussions of 'the crime problem' rarely give much attention to 'mundane crime,' which is a term for a variety of commonplace, low visibility, and often innocuous forms of lawbreaking found in abundance in American Society.
Abstract
Four kinds of mundane crime are identified and discussed: petty vice and public disorder offenses, folk crime, work place crime, and environmental abuse offenses. This paper also argues that a large share of mundane crime arises out of situational influences and other causal processes that have been insufficiently studied by criminologists. (Author abstract)