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Armed robbery / Roger Matthews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Roger, 1948-
- Series:
- Crime and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robbery.
- Firearms and crime.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cullompton, Devon ; Portland : Willan Pub., 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 Methodology, data and sources 1
- 2 The motivation of armed robbers 18
- A robbery is a robbery is a robbery 20
- A profile of armed robbers 21
- Types of armed robbers 22
- The influence of the media 30
- Money, money, money 32
- Drugs 33
- Violence 35
- The rational robber? 37
- Moralities and motivation 39
- 3 Doing the business 43
- Recent trends in armed robbery 45
- Selecting targets 46
- Modus operandi 50
- Preventing and reducing robberies 52
- The displacement of robbery 57
- 4 Weapon use in robbery 64
- Weapon choice and acquisition 65
- Trends in weapon use 68
- The police use of weapons 74
- The control of firearms 76
- Sentencing armed robbers 81
- 5 Victims of robbery 85
- Violence at work 86
- The selection of victims 89
- The experience and impact of armed robbery 91
- Gender, race and victimisation 95
- The distribution of commercial robberies 97
- Repeat victimisation 99
- 6 Policing armed robbery 103
- Dedicated versus non-dedicated units 104
- Proactive versus reactive policing 106
- The use of informers 108
- Measuring effectiveness 110
- The research 111
- Detecting armed robberies 114
- Prosecuting and sentencing offenders 121
- 7 The demise of armed robbery? 128
- Crime prevention measure 131
- The availability and use of firearms 133
- The changing patterns of victimisation 135
- The impact of policing and sentencing strategies 137
- Changing motivation and modus operandi 138
- The changing nature of (male) violence 143.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1903240603
- 1903240611
- OCLC:
- 47823203
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