ROBBERY

THE CONTIUNES CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS

THE CYCLE

Lethal Potential of

Robbery

Criminal Careers of Robbers

Robbery and Public

Transportation

Motivation of Robbers

Drug Robberies and

Gendered Nature of Robbery

ROBBERY

• Robbery is classified as a violent crime because it involves the threat or use of force. Terrence D. Miethe and David Mc Dowall stated that neighborhoods with security and a prominent socialization are more effective from robbery then the disorganized neighborhoods.

Because

• Homes and persons do not exist as potential targets for motivated offenders. The victims are targets from their perception to be vulnerable. So if you look like a easier prey this will increase your changes of robbery!

Lethal Potential of Robberyand

Criminal Careers of Robbers

• Robbery provide the context for 7% of all homicides annually. In 2006 approximately 16% of all homicides occurred during the commission of another felony. Handgun are used for most Robbery 85% were guns.

• Are Robbery Specialist or Generalist? Page 417• Most Robbers are Generalist because they are

diversity in the crime they committed according to James A Wilson and Allan Abrahanase.

Robbery and Public Transportationand

Motivation of Robbers

• Martha J. Smith and Ronald V. Clark state that robbery is a rare event on transportation. Smith and Clark said there are three scenarios robbers used: isolated areas, selected victims outside the station; lie in wait. According to Smith and Clark Taxicab Driver have the greatest risk.

• Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright hypothesized that street culture was the intervening force that connected background factors to the motivation to offend. Jacobs and Wright concluded that robbery is a way of life.

Drug Robberies and

Gendered Nature of Robbery

• Richard t. Wright and Scott H. Decker found that six out of every ten offenders who specialized in street robbery-forty-three of seventy- three-said that they usually preyed on individuals who themselves were involved in lawbreaking. Example: Young street drug dealer.

• Jody Miller states that which sex you are has nothing to do with robbery. Men use physical violence and rob other men because men carried more money. Female used physically confrontation and their sexuality to attract males victims for men to rob.

Assault and

Workplace Violence and Stalking

• Assault is the most common violent crime but also it is the starting point for more serious incidents of interpersonal violence, James Garbarino Stated.

• Workplace Violence is more common then generally believed. Workplace violence account for approximately 18% of all violent crime that occur in the United States.

• The first anti-stalking statute was passed in 1990 in California. Some example are rejected stalker, intimacy seeking stalker, incompetent suitors and resentful-vendetta stalker.