CRIM10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Robbery, Indictable Offence, Rational Agent
15 Jun 2018
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CRIM10001 – Lecture 8a & 8b
Armed robbery
Definition
• robbery is defined by the Aus. Bureau of Statistics as the unlawful taking of property,
without consent, accompanied by force or threat of force. Victims can be persons or
organisations
• it is divided into two categories:
o armed: robbery conducted with use of a weapon; any object used to cause
fear or injury, and includes imitation weapons and implied weapons (e.g.
weapon not seen by victim but offender claims to have one)
▪ 39% of robberies reported in 2010
o unarmed: robbery conducted without use of a weapon
▪ 61% of robberies reported in 2010
Victorian legislation policies
• crimes act 1958 armed Robbery s75A
o a person is guilty of armed robbery if he commits any robbery and at the time
has with him a firearm, imitation firearm, offensive weapon, explosive or
imitation explosive within the meaning assigned to those terms...
o guilty of an indictable offence and liable to level 2 imprisonment (max 25yrs)
Trends
Who gets robbed and where?
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