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'
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.
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