Introduction

This book brings together research on personal robbery from psychology, criminology, group dynamics, and youth justice, to provide a comprehensive resource on this crime type. Although robbery is a pressing issue affecting a very high volume of people, it has been under-researched in recent years.

Content Overview

This book explores the motivations of offenders, methods of committing personal robbery and the group dynamics involved. The author discusses behavioural crime linkage as a method to help police forces identify serial offences, as well as how profiling has been used in robbery cases.

Conclusion

The author concludes by summarising the policing tactics used to prevent and detect robbery, as well as how understanding robbery can help in creating workable initiatives around this crime type.