To wit, once a criminal is called an "armed robber" that's what he will strive to be in the best possible scenario he can conjure up. In the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (Armstrong et al
When there are "Disturbances" in these ego functions carry a "high risk for crime later in life" (Klinteberg 246). According to Sidney Blatt in the European Journal of Personality psychoanalytic theory is simply a "series of attempts to understand the functioning of the human mind" (Blatt, et al
Literature Review In attempting to discern and describe what brings a person to a point in his life where he feels compelled to take a weapon and through threat of force, goes about stealing items of value from another person, there are theories that need to be reviewed in that regard. Augustine Brannigan -- writing in the Canadian Journal of Criminology -- asserts that the "General Theory of Crime" that was put forward by Gottfredson and Hirschi posits that "low self-control" (the social control theory) is a "critical condition for individual choices" that are associated with criminal activity and delinquency (Brannigan, 1997 p
Moreover, "negative emotions, especially anger, increase the likelihood" of engaging in violent crime as the individual "seeks to alleviate the strain by escaping it…" (Hoffman 104). If an alert reader -- who is seeking to understand why a person would engage in armed robbery -- believes what Karen Heimer and Ross Matsueda write in the American Sociological Review about the social disorganization theory it all goes back to families, communities, and schools (Heimer, 1994 p
The strain theory has three categories: one, failure to achieve "positively valued goals"; two, the removal or "threatened removal" of "positively valued stimuli"; and three, the offering or threatened offering of "negatively valued stimuli" (Armstrong 75). In the Journal of Quantitative Criminology (Hoffmann, et al
org). As to the validity of behavioral theories -- with reference to a person's potential willingness to graduate from petty crimes to armed robbery -- Albert Bandura believed and theorized that individuals, especially young persons (children) do not "actually inherit violent tendencies" but model them by observing others, observing media, and seeing what is happening in one's environment (Isom 1998)
Writing in the European Journal of Personality point out that the psychoanalytic theory puts a lot of focus on the first years of an individual's life. The early years, during which "important ego functions are developed" (like the control of one's impulses and effect), and "tolerance for anxiety and frustration," are pivotal in terms of determining whether or not a person will end up a bank robber with a gun, for example (Klinteberg 1992, p
He explains that armed robbery "crosses the conventional division between violent and property crime" which means the sentencing is far more harsh (albeit the armed robbers don't seem to be deterred by the stiff sentences) than simple burglary. He adds that armed robbers appear to acting out of "desperation" as they act alone, and have a history of "failed" attempts (Matthews 2002 p
21). "Matthews could have provided more theoretical discussion of the issues" (Porter 2005) and might have linked armed robbers with "co-offending… [and] role distribution," as well as embracing psychological discussions of armed robbery
The sniper would be placed on the tallest building in the area, the three-story building across from the bank. He would be given the directive to shoot suspect on sight, as Don Coker says in his "Banking Security Principles and Issues" regarding the predilections of bank robbers, "Regardless of what anyone anywhere states, no criminal wants to get shot…" (Coker, 2010)
Finally, robbery was far and away the obvious motive of the Clutter case but the Walker case seemed more about a rape that culminated with the killing of anyone who could be a witness. Even with that, Capote asserts in his book that Hickok had to prevent Smith from raping one of the Clutters, that being Nancy (Capote, 1995)