For one to be deterred from committing a felony such as a form of robbery, then they must be deterred by a form of specific and general deterrence. Any kind of deterrence has 3 main properties; severity, certainty and celerity (Sacco and Kennedy, 2010). Severity refers to the seriousness of the penalty, certainty is the reference to the likelihood of being punished for act and celerity is the swiftness in which the offender is apprehended and punished (Clark, 1988) (Sacco and Kennedy, 2010). Furthermore, specific deterrence is the way individuals are deterred from offending or re-offending by being punished by the law, whilst general deterrence refer to the ways individuals are deterred by witnessing others being punished for breaking the
