Robbery: The Victims and Offenders
Julio M. Guerrero
Tarleton State University
DISPATCH: “Attention all units, Attention all units. A robbery just occurred at the Chase bank. Suspect is armed and dangerous. Suspect left the scene in a small car heading south.”
UNIT: “Clear dispatch. Show me heading to Chase bank. Any other description?”
DISPATCH: “Male suspect, approximately five feet ten inches, wearing all black and a ski mask. Suspect displayed a firearm, silver in color.” In large cities or small suburban towns, this seems to be a typical radio transmission that can occur on any given day. In the scenario above, the Chase Bank employees were lucky that the suspect did not fire his gun. According to the Texas Penal Code, …show more content…
Erickson, Ph. D, “Nearly half of the juvenile robbers had a parent or sibling in prison” (p i). When a child has no family structure they tend to look for someone to attach to, to fill that void in their life. Dr. Erickson stated that during her study, “Sixty percent of the juveniles said that they experienced violence when they were young.” She also stated that, “When the juveniles were asked where they learned to be violent, the most frequent response was that they learned it from friends, seventy-three percent” (p 11). Children with parents incarcerated tend to have trouble in school and their grades reflect this. Some of these children’s behavior is often placed into the ADHD classification, but when they look at the whole picture these children are often depressed. There are many challenges that the offender must overcome when they are released back into society. In this violent crime of robbery there are many victims that are affected by the offender’s actions. We have mentioned the effects to the offender’s side of the family not let us speak about the victims of the robbery and the effects that the robbery has brought on them and their …show more content…
There are often financial, physical and emotional injuries that victims suffer after a robbery. The physical trauma of a robbery victim is apparent by the bruises, cuts, broken arms or legs. There is information on what the law abiding citizens should and should not do. Quoted from Robbers on Robbery: Prevention and the Offender, Richard Wright; Scott H. Decker, “Most would-be robbers are attracted to victims by outward signs of wealth. Thus, people should be reminded not to wear expensive jewelry or display large amounts of cash in public” (p 17). So what Wright and Decker are saying is that if we, law abiding citizens, work hard and earn our money to buy nice things we should not wear them because some low life robber will rob us and take these things. Wright and Decker go on and state, “There is one situational change with the potential to strike at the heart of offender motivation: the complete elimination of cash in favor of a debit and credit card-based system of electronic monetary transfers” (p 20). This sounds easy enough but then it opens the citizens to another theft, identification theft. This is another subject all together, but it tells the citizen that in order to prevent getting robbed, they must now open themselves up for identification theft. There are also credit card fees that are associated with using certain credit cards. It seems that the law abiding citizen must alter their lifestyle so
Julio M. Guerrero
Tarleton State University
DISPATCH: “Attention all units, Attention all units. A robbery just occurred at the Chase bank. Suspect is armed and dangerous. Suspect left the scene in a small car heading south.”
UNIT: “Clear dispatch. Show me heading to Chase bank. Any other description?”
DISPATCH: “Male suspect, approximately five feet ten inches, wearing all black and a ski mask. Suspect displayed a firearm, silver in color.” In large cities or small suburban towns, this seems to be a typical radio transmission that can occur on any given day. In the scenario above, the Chase Bank employees were lucky that the suspect did not fire his gun. According to the Texas Penal Code, …show more content…
Erickson, Ph. D, “Nearly half of the juvenile robbers had a parent or sibling in prison” (p i). When a child has no family structure they tend to look for someone to attach to, to fill that void in their life. Dr. Erickson stated that during her study, “Sixty percent of the juveniles said that they experienced violence when they were young.” She also stated that, “When the juveniles were asked where they learned to be violent, the most frequent response was that they learned it from friends, seventy-three percent” (p 11). Children with parents incarcerated tend to have trouble in school and their grades reflect this. Some of these children’s behavior is often placed into the ADHD classification, but when they look at the whole picture these children are often depressed. There are many challenges that the offender must overcome when they are released back into society. In this violent crime of robbery there are many victims that are affected by the offender’s actions. We have mentioned the effects to the offender’s side of the family not let us speak about the victims of the robbery and the effects that the robbery has brought on them and their …show more content…
There are often financial, physical and emotional injuries that victims suffer after a robbery. The physical trauma of a robbery victim is apparent by the bruises, cuts, broken arms or legs. There is information on what the law abiding citizens should and should not do. Quoted from Robbers on Robbery: Prevention and the Offender, Richard Wright; Scott H. Decker, “Most would-be robbers are attracted to victims by outward signs of wealth. Thus, people should be reminded not to wear expensive jewelry or display large amounts of cash in public” (p 17). So what Wright and Decker are saying is that if we, law abiding citizens, work hard and earn our money to buy nice things we should not wear them because some low life robber will rob us and take these things. Wright and Decker go on and state, “There is one situational change with the potential to strike at the heart of offender motivation: the complete elimination of cash in favor of a debit and credit card-based system of electronic monetary transfers” (p 20). This sounds easy enough but then it opens the citizens to another theft, identification theft. This is another subject all together, but it tells the citizen that in order to prevent getting robbed, they must now open themselves up for identification theft. There are also credit card fees that are associated with using certain credit cards. It seems that the law abiding citizen must alter their lifestyle so