Abstract
This study investigates an under‐researched crime—auto then—as a leisure activity that some juveniles perform as a part of their lifestyle. For these juveniles it is not just the thrill of the act of performing auto theft, but the risk involved in “getting away with it.” This risk is one that must be, what the youths perceive as, under their control. This lifestyle is based on the pursuit of casual leisure (Stebbins, 1997) where boredom prevails as a condition in the juvenile's everyday life. The motivations of auto theft are contextualized as thrill and risk with a hedonic lifestyle as a means to an end. This means to an end is from the theft itself as a leisure activity or as an intermediate step to another leisure activity.
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