SOC229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fast Getaway, Homicide, Delayed Gratification
22 Sep 2016
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Robbery rate decline by 46% age (20s) replaced by older people. Mandatory minimums on weapons (4 year flat sentence) Overall higher rate of violent crime tied to poverty. 1. mugging : retail or commercial robbery convenient or clothing store, bank robbery. Violence as result of resistance & pre-emptive force. Unlike other crimes (sexual offences, homicide, dc) there is no relationship. May be acquaintances drug dealer, prostitute, adolescents. French canadians (60% of all robberies in canada) Drug use increases exponentially with bank robberies (27 men) Hedonistic pursuits as factor for continuation of offending. 1 of 6 gamblers note as motivation for robbery. 5 of 6 continuation robbing to support gambling. As unemployment rises, robbery rates remain stable or decline. Desroches argues an improved job market would not influence these men to seek employment. 64 of80 were unemployed at time of 1st robbery. Typologies are categorization of offenders based on m. o. s. Tend to oversimplify because they are an abstraction.
