Informative Essay: Robbery And The Criminal Justice System

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Dishonest, illegal, criminal, infamous, cruel, and greedy are words that mostly describes this felony crime. These words tells us that people are doing these things for fun, but it's not. Taking something that is not yours? That's robbery. Shoplifting? Burglary? Theft? Breaking and Entering? These are all things that represents robbery. Our community has been threatened by robbers, burglars, thieves, and shoplifters. This is what robbery is. It is pointless to do, a foolish thing to do be exact; and we need to stand up and do the right thing.
Robbery has been in our generation since it was first listed as a plea of the Crown by Henry the 2nd. As I was reading, I heard, of course, that robbery was the one of the earliest crimes under the English law to be made punishable by the state rather than through compensation of and injured party or through
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There was an article on New York Post that was posted on May 17th, 2016, about this Colorado babysitter who was arrested on suspicion of robbing a driving thru by saying that a man in the car would harm her two kids unless he is given money. The police went to go check this woman and the bank teller said she got $500 from the bank. They caught her but she wasn’t the children’s mother, but their babysitter. Robbers like Rachel Einspahr uses children to get the thing they want. They use the kids to keep the law enforcement distracted. Another article about robbery on New York Post was about these robbers making a heist at the Silver Spring Gamestop store. This 7-year old boy did his best to fight one of the robbers with a stuffed toy. Hs father said that his son punched him and hitted him with a Yoshi doll but nobody got injured. He also said that his son saw a stranger who seem most dangerous to him and he tried to defend himself. Even though they got away, he still defend himself and was very

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