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Robbery in the illegal drugs trade: violence and vengeance.
Ebook - Mclean, R & Densley, J. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
Uncovering organized shoplifting and theft networks.
Article - Crocker, R. et al. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 377–385
Property crime : criminological and psychological perspectives.
Ebook - Burrell, A. & Tonkin, M. Oxford: Routlege, 2020.
Catalytic converter theft: An examination of the elasticity of crime.
Article - Stickle, B. et al. Crime Prevention & Community Safety; Jun2024, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p139-156.
The crime and the place: Robbery in the night‐time economy.
Article - Wüllenweber, S. & Burrell, A. Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling; Jan2024, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p3-19.
When crime moves where does it go? Analyzing the spatial correlates of robbery incidents displaced by a place-based policing intervention.
Article - Hatton, D. et al. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol 59(1), Feb, 2022. pp. 128-162.
Effects of theft stereotype on bystander recall, interpretation, and punishment for male and female juvenile thieves.
Article - Shapiro, L. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Sep2021, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p1158-1170.
Differences between high and low performing police agencies in clearing robberies, aggravated assaults, and burglaries: findings from an eight-agency case study.
Article - Lum, C. et al. Police Quarterly. Jun2024, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p135-157.
Robbery: the tipping point between theft and violence.
Ebook - Burrell, A. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Robbery and theft resources
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Digital robbery: ATM hacking and implications.
Ebook - Hsieh, M. & Wang, S. Cham: Springer, 2021.
A robbery is a robbery is a robbery? Exploring crime specificity in official police incident data.
Article - Haberman, C. P. et. al.
Police Practice & Research. 2022, Vol. 23 Iss. 4, pp. 429-443.
Perspectives on police specialization in art theft investigations.
Article - Runhovde, S. R.
Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice. 2021, Vol. 15 Iss. 3, pp. 1729-1743.
Effects of theft stereotype on bystander recall, interpretation, and punishment for male and female juvenile thieves
Article - Shapiro, L. R.
Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2021, Vol. 35 Iss. 5, pp. 1158-1170.
Peel spotlight report: the police response to burglary, robbery and other acquisitive crime: finding time for crime
Report - HMICFRS
London, 2022.
Patterns in bike theft and recovery
Article - Cohen, A. et al.
eScholarship, 2023, University of California.
Offence characteristics: a comparison of lone, duo, and 3+ perpetrator robbery offences.
Article - Wüllenweber, S. et al.
Psychology, Crime & Law. 2021, Vol. 27 Iss. 2, pp. 122-139.