CHAPTER J

Question 1

1. What is the primary motivation for robbery.
2. What are some juveniles motived for robbery by.
3. What is common among robbers that may influence them

Answer 1

1. Money
2. Peer influence and the quest for thrills
3. Drug and alcohol use

Question 2

1. Robbers that use drugs are how many times more likely to rob.
2. What is the advantage of robbery over other crimes.
3. Do most robberies result in physical harm or injury
4. How many are injured in a robbery

Answer 2

1. Twice as likely
2. It’s quick, easy , and requires little planning.
3. No. Most are not injured.
4. One in three are injured .

Question 3

1. Definition of robbery

Answer 3

1. The theft or attempted theft, in a direct confrontation with the victim, by force or the threat of force or violence.

Question 4

1. What weapon is mostly used in robberies.
2. In a near equal percent of robberies were, what.
3. What is the total amount of loss in most robberies.
4. What makes robbery a crime against persons

Answer 4

1. A firearm.
2. Strong arm.
3. Less then $100.
4. The violent nature of it.

Question 5

1. Robbery follows one of the five patterns, which are.

Answer 5

1. Robbery of persons employed in positions placing them in charge of money or goods. (Robbery of banks, stores, officers, jewelry stores)
2. Robbery in open areas. (Include muggings, street robbery)
3. Robbery on private premises. (When robbers beak into homes and rob residents)
4. Robbery after preliminary association of short duration (robbery after meeting in a nightspot or after a sexual encounter).
5. Robbery after previous association of some duration between victim and offender. (Robbed by known person)

Question 6

1. What type of robbers make up the majority of robberies.

Answer 6

1. Stranger to stranger robberies.

Question 7

1. When does commercial robbery typically occur.
2. What places are typical targets of commercial robbery.
3. Why.

Answer 7

1. At the end of a workweek
2. During the evening or very early in the morning.
3. Stores or businesses located close to major thoroughfares, main streets, highways, intestate.
4. They offer a quick getaway

Question 8

1. What ranks among the most serious and feared criminal offenses.
2. Why
3. What type of robberies are most uncommon.

Answer 8

1. Robbery
2. Because it involves both threatened or actual violence and the loss of property. And causes psychological trauma.
3. Bank robberies.

Question 9

1. What are the odds of police catching a bank robber near or still on the scene.
2. Why 4
3. When are many robbers caught.
4. What about the clearance rate for bank robberies.

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Answer 9

1. Much higher then other crimes.
3. Because most bank robbers are reported very quickly
4. Most occur during daylight
5. Many have multiple witnesses.
6. Some produce photographic images.
7. On the same day.
8. They rank among the highest for all crimes.

Question 10

1. What is the most common threat/weapon used during a bank robbery.
2. What’s second.
3. What leads to a bank robber being apprehended.
4. What about the prosecution rate.

Answer 10

1. A visible firearm, usually a handgun.
2. A demand note.
3. They are predictable
4. Prosecution and conviction rate is among the highest of any crimes

Question 11

1. Are bank robberies usually planned.

2. What is the best tracing clue in a robbery

Answer 11

1. No . They are spontaneous and opportunistic crimes of desperation.
2. The vehicle used in the escape.

Question 12

1. What kind of targets do robbers select

2. When is a convenience store most suspectible to re victimization

Answer 12

1. Easy targets.

2. Within the first few weeks.

Question 13

1. Two types of convenience store robbery

Answer 13

1. Straight robbery - demands money immediately upon entering
2. Customer robbery - pretends to buy something .

Question 14

1. What is merchandise robbery

Answer 14

1. Forcible taking of goods. Theft but then turns to force when clerk resists.

Question 15

Common ATM robberies.

Answer 15

1. Love offenders using a weapon rob a lone victim
2. Most occur at night, between midnight and 4am
3. Rob after making the withdraw.
4. More likely to occur at a walk up ATM, then a drive thru
5. Only 15 percent are injured.

Question 16

1. What is the most common type of robbery
2. What are most street robberies committed with.
3. What type of weapon.
4. When do they take place.
5. How are both the victim and offender.

Answer 16

1. Robbery committed on public streets and in alleyways.
2. Weapons.
3. A handgun
4. At night.
5. Both are on foot.

Question 17

1. Characteristics of street robbery.
2. Why type of person robs
3. Average age
4. Typical offender male or female
5. Ethnicity
6. Time of week.

Answer 17

1. It’s a young persons game
2. Late teens and early 20’s.
3. Male
4. Black
5. Weekends

Question 18

1. What time of day are elderly people robbed.
2. What time are youths robbed.
3. What time are young adults robbed.

Answer 18

1. In the morning or early afternoon
2. Between 3pm and 6pm]
3. At night during the evening

Question 19

1. How does the unarmed street robber approach a victim
2. Who are most susceptible that this type of robbery

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Answer 19

1. With more then one attacker, and through their numbers, intimidate the victim.
2. The elderly and drunk people.

Question 20

1. Who is often the victim of a vehicle robbery

Answer 20

1. The driver.

Question 21

1. What is the smash and grab robbery

Answer 21

1. When robbers stake out steers off Exit Ramps from airports. When drivers stop at a red light. They smash the window and hold the driver at gunpoint

Question 22

1. What is the most frightening type of robbery
2. How do must home invasions occur
3. Home invasions are also known as
4. Who commits the most residential robberys

Answer 22

1. The home invasion
2. They start out as burglaries but become home invasions when the burglar discovers that someone is home
3. Home invasion.
4. Committed by acquaintances

Question 23

1. In a home invasion what is the usual point of attack

Answer 23

1. The front door or the garage

Question 24

1. What is the average dollar loss in a school robbery

2. School robberies are more like what

Answer 24

1. Less then 1 dollar.

2. Like shakedowns

Question 25

1. What are the 4 types of robbers

Answer 25

1. Professional robber
2. Opportunistic robber
3. Drug addict robber
4. Intoxicated robber

Question 26

1. Characteristics of the professional robber

2. Characteristics of the opportunistic robber

Answer 26

1. Long term commitment to crime
2. Plans , organizes , and robs to support particular lifestyle
3. Does 3 or 4 scores a year
4. Sometimes works in groups
5. Steals small amounts of money when he sees a vulnerable target.
6. Usually robs cabs , old people , drunks.
7. Typically younger and does not plan

Question 27

1. Characteristics of the drug addict robber.

2. Characteristics of the intoxicated robber

Answer 27

1. Robs to support drub habit
2. Less likely to use a weapon.
3. Prefers theft cause robbery can be violent
4. Less careful to choose victim.
5. Plan crime randomly.
6. Give little consideration to anything
7. Robs cause intoxicated

Question 28

1. For the majority of robbers. What is the motivation.

Answer 28

1. Supporting a particular lifestyle. (Money).

Question 29

1. What is the most common type of robbery.
2. What is the most common place for robbery

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Answer 29

1. Individual robbery.

2. On the way to and from your car

Question 30

1. What is robbery
2. What crimes are not classified as robbery.
3. What are the classified under.

Answer 30

1. It is a personal crime and involves face to face contact between the victim and the offender.
2. Purse snatches and pick pocketing
3. Larceny theft.