This guide, specially enhanced for Kindle, addresses street robbery and reviews factors contributing to its occurrence. It then provides a series of questions to help you analyze your local street robbery problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice. In this guide, a street robbery is defined as a crime with the following five the offender targets a victim;
the victim is a pedestrian and a stranger; the offender attempts or completes a theft of cash or property; the offender uses force or the threat of force against the victim; and the offense occurs in a public or semipublic place, such as on a street, in an alley, in a parking garage, in a public park, on or near public transportation, or in a shared apartment hallway.
Language
English
Pages
60
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
March 01, 2010
Street Robbery (Problem Oriented Guides for Police Book 59)
This guide, specially enhanced for Kindle, addresses street robbery and reviews factors contributing to its occurrence. It then provides a series of questions to help you analyze your local street robbery problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice. In this guide, a street robbery is defined as a crime with the following five the offender targets a victim;
the victim is a pedestrian and a stranger; the offender attempts or completes a theft of cash or property; the offender uses force or the threat of force against the victim; and the offense occurs in a public or semipublic place, such as on a street, in an alley, in a parking garage, in a public park, on or near public transportation, or in a shared apartment hallway.