Cover and Contents for my forthcoming book Stealing Cars: Technology and Society from the Model T to the Gran Torino

Contents

vii     Acknowledgments

  1        INTRODUCTION: Park at Your Own Risk

  7        CHAPTER 1. “Stop, Thief!”

 36       CHAPTER 2. Juvenile Delinquents, Hardened Criminals, and Ineffectual Technological Solutions (1941–1980)

 68       CHAPTER 3. From the Personal Garage to the Surveillance Society

 87       CHAPTER 4. Car Theft in the Electronic and Digital Age (1970s–Present)

115     CHAPTER 5. Mexico, the United States, and International Auto Theft

144     CHAPTER 6. The Recent Past


157     CONCLUSION: Stealing the American Dream

161    Appendix. Tables Summarizing Various U.S. Automobile Theft Crime Reports and Surveys, 1924–2010

179    Notes


205    Essay on Sources

211    Index