Potential spaces of crime: The playful, the destructive, and the distinctively human
Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 3, No. 1, 49-66 (2007)
http://cmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/1/49?etoc
Christopher R. Williams
"Though most share an interest in answering the question, ‘What are people trying to accomplish when they commit a crime?’ criminologists have been largely reluctant to entertain the ways in which the accomplishment of crime reflects deeper, more fundamental and distinctively human capacities and needs." [Sub required]