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