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• Crime-specific analysis : an empirical examination of burglary offender characteristics (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service, 1976), by Carl E. Pope (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The personal narratives of "George Stevens" and "Jimmy Wilson," late burglars and gamblers; now followers of Jesus Christ: converted, by the grace of God, through the instrumentality of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. (New York, 1876), by George Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime-specific analysis : an empirical examination of burglary offender characteristics (Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. , 1977), by Carl E. Pope, Criminal Justice Research Center, and United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service. Statistics Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Sile Doty, 1800-1876, a Forgotten Autobiography: The Most Noted Thief and Daring Burglar of His Time (originally published 1880; edition with a new foreword published Detroit: Alved of Detroit, 1948), by Sile Doty, ed. by J. G. W. Colburn, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Your red wagon (Bantam Books, 1948), by Edward Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Activities of Interagency Committee on Auto Theft Prevention hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session, August 4, 1976. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)

• California vehicle theft study (s.n.], 1971), by California Highway Patrol and Arthur Young & Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Life of Sile Doty, 1800-1876, a Forgotten Autobiography: The Most Noted Thief and Daring Burglar of His Time (originally published 1880; edition with a new foreword published Detroit: Alved of Detroit, 1948), by Sile Doty, ed. by J. G. W. Colburn, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border Bandits: An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and Their Bands of Highwaymen (St. Louis: Historical Pub. Co., 1881), by James W. Buel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Illustrated Lives and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Brothers, the Noted Western Outlaws (new edition; New York and St. Louis: N.D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by J. A. Dacus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The personal narratives of "George Stevens" and "Jimmy Wilson," late burglars and gamblers; now followers of Jesus Christ: converted, by the grace of God, through the instrumentality of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. (New York, 1876), by George Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank and Jesse James (s.n., 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The border outlaws an authentic and thrilling history of the most noted bandits of ancient or modern times : the Younger brothers, Jesse and Frank James and their comrades in crime (Historical Pub. Co., 1881), by J. W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of the celebrated mail robber and daring highwayman, Joseph Thompson Hare : who committed depredations in the cities of New York and Philadelphia to the amount of nearly ninety thousand dollars ; also, of the cruel and ferocious pirate, Alexander Tardy. (J.B. Perry, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wild bandits of the border. A thrilling story of the adventures and exploits of Frank and Jesse James, Missouri's twin wraiths of robbery and murder ... (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American bloody register: containing a true and complete history of the lives, last words, and dying confessions of three of the most noted criminals that have ever made their exit from a stage in America, viz. Richard Barrick and John Sullivan, high way robbers. Together with the dying confession of Alexander White, a murderer and pirate, who were executed at Cambridge, (New England) on Thursday, November 18, 1784. : [Two lines of quotation] (Boston: : Printed and sold by E. Russell, at his office next door below Liberty-Pole; where great allowance is made to purchasers by the quantity., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The lives and dying confessions of Richard Barrick, and John Sullivan, high-way robbers. Together with the last words of Alexander White, murderer and pirate, who were executed at Cambridge, on Thursday, November 18, 1784. (Printed and sold at Worcester [Mass.]. : Sold also by Edward Houghton, post-rider., [1785]), by Richard Barrick, John Sullivan, and Alexander White (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez, the California Stage Robber (Oskland, CA: Biobooks, 1944), by Eugene T. Sawyer, contrib. by Joseph A. Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Narrative of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Alias Jonas Pierce, Alias James H. York, Alias Burley Grove, the Highwayman: Being His Death-Bed Confession, to the Warden of the Massachusetts State Prison (Boston: Harrington and Co., 1837), by James Allen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life, last words and dying confession, of Rachel Wall, who, with William Smith and William Dunogan, were executed at Boston, on Thursday, October 8, 1789, for high-way robbery. ([Boston : s.n., 1789]), by Rachel Wall (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Prison life and reflections; or, A narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflections, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, who suffered an unjust and cruel imprisonment in Missouri penitentiary, for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty. (Printed by S. W. Benedict, 1848), by George Thompson, James E. Burr, and Alanson Work (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beating Back (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1914), by Al Jennings and Will Irwin, illust. by Charles M. Russell
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• Beating back (Musson, 1914), by Al Jennings and Will Irwin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Robbers' Roost (1930-1932), by Zane Grey (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Banditti of the Plains: or, The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892, "The Crowning Infamy of the Ages" (with a new foreword; San Francisco: Printed for G. Fields by the Grabhorn Press, 1935), by A. S. Mercer, contrib. by James Mitchell Clarke, illust. by Arvilla Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Banditti of the Plains: or, The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 (Cheyenne: The author, ca. 1894), by A. S. Mercer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• How the bank sneak works : the personal experience and observation of Harry Schindler, alias the "Swindler" ; twenty-two years of a bank sneak's work accurately portrayed (H.S. Burton, 1910), by Harry Schindler, Eugene A. Boylan, and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two sermons: the first from Psalm CII. 19, 20. Delivered the Lord's-Day before the execution of Levi Ames. Who was executed at Boston, Thursday October 21. for burglary. Aet. 22. This discourse was preached at the desire of the criminal, who also attended on the occasion. The second from Proverbs XVII. 25. Preached the Lords-Day after his execution; and designed as an improvement of that awful event, by way of caution to others. : To which is added, at the request of many, an account of the exercise of his mind, from the time of his condemnation, till he left the world; together with the conversation the author had with him as he walked with him from the prison to the gallows. By all which, compared with his latter conduct, he may be thought in a judgment of charity, to have died, a penitent thief. / By Samuel Stillman, A.M. Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston. ; [One line from Luke] (Boston: : Printed by John Kneeland, in Milk-Street, for Philip Freeman, in Union-Street., MDCCLXXIII. [1773]), by Samuel Stillman (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Constitution of the grand and subordinate order of the A.H.T.A. of Missouri. (Spectator Print, 1885), by Anti Horse Thief Association of Missouri (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Groundworke of conny-catching (Chatto and Windus, 1907), by Edward Viles, Frederick James Furnivall, John Awdelay, Thomas Harman, and ̲̲̲ Haben (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stealing through life (A.A. Knopf, 1929), by Ernest Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of a thief (Fox, Duffield, 1903), by Hutchins Hapgood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great pearl robbery of 1913; : a record of fact, (W. Heinemann ltd., 1929), by Christmas Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fraternitye of vacabondes (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1869), by Edward Viles, Haben, Thomas Harman, John Awdelay, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highwaymen, footpads, shoplifts, & cheats of both sexes, wherein their most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts, and unheard-of-cheats are set in a true light and exposed to public view, for the common benefit of mankind (G. Routledge & sons, ltd., 1926), by Alexander Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• You can't win (Macmillan, 1927), by Jack Black (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare's youth : describd by Jn. Awdeley in his Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1561-73, Thos.Harman in his Caueat for Common Cursetors, 1567-73, and in The Groundworke of Conny-catching, 1592 (Trübner, 1880), by Edward Viles, parson Haben, Thomas Harman, John Awdelay, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal receivers in the United States; social and economic problems of the "fence"--the source of organized crime and creator of criminals, submitted to the New York state crime commission, National crime commission, National commissioners on uniform state laws, National trade relations committee of the Chamber of commerce of the United States of America and Association of casualty and surety executives, by the Prison committee of the Association of grand jurors of New York County. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1928), by Association of grand jurors of New York County. Prison committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber Diebe und Diebesbanden. ([Hanover, 1807), by Amtschreiber Meier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rogues and vagabonds of Shakspere's youth : describd by Jn. Awdeley in his Fraternitye of vacabondes, 1561-73, Thos. Harman in his Caueat for common cursetors, 1567-73, and in the Groundworke of conny-catching, 1592 (Trübner, 1880), by parson Haben, Thomas Harman, John Awdelay, Frederick James Furnivall, and Edward Viles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comment on nous vole, comment on nous tue. (Librairie contemporaine, 1922), by Eugène Villiod (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The fraternitye of vacabondes, by John Awdeley : ... from the edition of 1575 in the Bodleian library. A caueat or warening for commen cursetors vulgarely called vagabones, by Thomas Harman esquiere, from the 3rd edition of 1567 ... A sermon in praise of thieves and thievery, by Parson Haben or Hyberdyne, from the Landsdowne ms. 98, and Cotton Vesp. A. 25. Those parts of the groundworke of conny-catching (ed. 1592) that differ from Harman's Caueat (Pub. for the Early English text society, by H. Milford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1937), by Edward Viles, Haben, Thomas Harman, John Awdelay, and Frederick James Furnivall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du John Hart (Chez Ludgar Duvernay, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Autobiography of a Thief, by Hutchins Hapgood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The English villain: or The grand thief.: Being a full relation of the desperate life, and deserved death of that most notable thief, and notorious robber, Richard Hanam: who for his arch villanies, and notorious robberies committed both in England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, yea, Rome it self; far exceeds that arch villain the Spanish Gusman, and the late famous robber of England Captain Iames Hind; yea, and all the notorious thieves that ever yet were heard of: the like to whom hath not been known. With the manner of the execution, and his speech at his last farewell to the world. Licensed and entred according to Order. (London : Printed for Iohn Andrews, at the white Lion in the Old-Baily, [1656]), by Richard Hannam (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Desordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English (London : [s.n.], 1657), by Carlos Garcâia and W. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Excessive wickedness, the way to an untimely death. A sermon preached at Fairfield, in Connecticut, September 7th, 1768. At the execution of Isaac Frasier. / By Noah Hobart, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Fairfield. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts] (New-Haven: : Printed and sold by Thomas and Samuel Green., [1768]), by Noah Hobart (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Memoir of the life of John Hart, the celebrated robber who was executed in Quebec, on the tenth day of November 1826 for having been convicted of the robbery of the Roman Catholical cathedral of that city. (s.n., 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of a thief (Duffield, 1914), by Hutchins Hapgood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bill acte pour rendre plus efficace l'administration de la justice en autant qu'il concerne les juges de la paix, pour les districts de Québec, Montréal et Trois-Rivières, et pour prévenir d'une manière plus efficace les vols et autres félonies. (s.n., 1817), by Bas-Canada. Législature. Conseil législatif and Bas-Canada. Législature. Chambre d'assemblée (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du John Hart (Chez Ludgar Duvernay, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)

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