Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture
Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture
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武装抢劫犯的行动：抢劫和街头文化
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1997
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Neal Shover
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作者：
R. Wright;Scott H. Decker;Neal Shover
武装抢劫是城市居民最害怕的犯罪之一，造成严重的伤亡风险，并给执法工作带来严峻挑战。然而，人们对促使攻击者使用武器以武力或武力威胁夺取财产的复杂因素知之甚少。《武装抢劫犯在行动》不像以前的研究那样，关注被监禁的罪犯经常被扭曲的叙述。Richard T. Wright和Scott H.德克尔在圣路易斯的街道上进行了危险的、危及生命的实地研究，以获得劫匪对他们的动机和方法的更直率的回应。他们还参观了几个犯罪现场，以研究环境的情境和空间特征如何促成犯罪。作者广泛引用了他们与罪犯的谈话，考虑了决定实施武装抢劫的基本情况，探讨了如何以及为什么选择目标，并详细介绍了抢劫中使用的各种战术。通过分析犯罪分子对自己行为和所处社会环境的坦诚态度，作者对持械抢劫有了更全面的认识。报告最后深刻讨论了其调查结果对预防犯罪政策的影响。
One of the most feared crimes among urban dwellers, armed robbery poses a serious risk of injury or death, and presents daunting challenges for law enforcement. Yet little is known about the complex factors that motivate assailants who use a weapon to take property by force or threat of force. Armed Robbers in Action is not like previous studies that focus on the often distorted accounts of incarcerated offenders. Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker conducted dangerous, life-threatening field research on the streets of St. Louis to obtain more forthright responses from robbers about their motives and methods. They also visited several crime scenes to examine how situational and spatial features of the setting contributed to the offense. Quoting extensively from their conversations with the offenders, the authors consider the circumstances underlying the decision to commit an armed robbery, explore how and why targets are chosen, and detail the various tactics used in a hold-up. By analyzing the criminals' candid perspectives on their actions and their social environment, the authors provide a fuller understanding of armed robbery. They conclude with an insightful discussion of the implications of their findings for crime prevention policy.