The study described in this article was based on the interviews of 225 prison property offenders in New South Wales gaols. It provides information on the relationship between the commission of crimes, such as armed robbery and burglary, and the regular use of heroin, as well as profiling the behaviour of one identifiable sample of users.

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This is a well written and comprehensive examination of the whole area of car crime, which draws together many recent pieces of research to form a coherent summary of the state of knowledge in the area.A major theme developed throughout is that car crime, hitherto defined narrowly as theft of and from motor vehicles, should be defined more widely to include driver behaviour and other organisational factors in society.

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