Section 10 Flashcards
Third most traumatic crime for the victim.
Robbery
Is there a difference between burglary, theft, and robbery?
yes
Can get robbed. almost always a burglary gone bad.
Private residences
If you try to burgle a house and the owner wakes up and confronts me and they pull a knife and say I am here to take stuff and it turns into a what?
robbery
A lot of robbers will try to figure out where _____ live and what their routine is and rob them and leave. Attractive targets because they cannot defend themselves because they have money and rich jewelry.
elderly
We do not ___ people we know. We might _____ people we know with the intent that they will not catch me. If we ___ someone, we know they will easily be able to identify us to the police.
rob
burgle
rob
Commonly there are __ or more offenders in robbery because there is strength in numbers.
2
Example, if you have one person pop out in front of the victim and another behind the victim to prevent them from running away. True or False
Two or more people True
Close to where they live is where they commit robberies. Why?
they do not travel far from where they live
If you have a robber and want to look at the suspect pool and you know where the other robberies are, you can use crime mapping to figure out where he might live and work. Why?
Offender does not travel far
They are not drawn-out affairs unless something went wrong. Get in, get out. Be quick when _______.
robbing
Very rarely any contact. Example, bank robbery you go in and put up a note give me money and i have a bomb. Because of this there is what?
less physical evidence
People love to commit robberies against people who have a tough time defending themselves. This makes _____ victims targets.
older
Incredibly rare and when they do happen, they are most often burglaries gone wrong.
residential
There are some robberies of a house, for example a drug house. True or False
True
Residential robbery?
Rare
Most frequent type of work related homicide.
commercial
When people are murdered at work odds are it was a robbery gone bad. This is the most frequent type of what?
work related homicide
Example, working at Blockbuster and one of the fears is going to take the money to the bank at the beginning or end of the day. Not a lot of people around and eaiser to be whar?
robbed
- Most frequent type of work related homicide
2. most common at opening and closing
Commercial robbery
Example, someone walks up to you and says “give me all your money” and they have a gun. These usually require ____ and _____.
surprise and speed
One of the benefits is a witness statement. The less amount of time a witness is looking at you the worse their description is going to be. The longer we have a conversation the more the victim is going to remember. This means there is a need for _____ and ______.
surprise and speed