Robberies tend to have similar characteristics that stand out to investigators. Identify what characteristics would stand out so as to assume that a robbery has occurred

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Committed by amateurs, who engage in various other offending activities in addition to robbery; carried out in public locations such as streets, parks, fields, playgrounds, or parking areas; attacks by offenders who are strangers to the victim in approximately three out of four incidents; disorganized, unplanned events that involve little if any preparation; brazen acts where the offender(s) rob their victim(s) with little concern for being recorded by CCTV cameras or other security devices; situations in which the victim(s) most likely will endure some type of physical harm, especially when the offender uses a weapon; executed by offenders who behave irrationally or carelessly because they are under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol at the time the crime is committed.