Abstract
Though the criminal receiver and his crime stand out as sorely neglected by sociologists, psychologists, and criminologists, the burgeoning rate of property theft with its need for the ready market of the receiver makes it clear that the fence has not shrunk before the social scientist's neglect. If anything, it would seem that he has flourished in the dim periphery which the thief's spot light has afforded him.
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