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Repeated bank robbery: themes and variations
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posted on 2006-02-24, 15:07 authored by Roger Matthews, Catherine Pease, Ken PeaseThis study examines all bank robberies, completed and attempted,
reported to the U.K.'s Metropciitan Police in the years 1992-
1994. It shows the rate of repetition against the same branches to be
high, with each robbed branch suffering an average of 1.54 robberies,
and the most robbed branch suffering six. Repeat robberies follow the
success of earlier robberies, with the probability of repetition being
roughly predictable from average sum taken (with attempts counting
zero) at prior robberies of the same branch. Repeat robberies are less
successful than first robberies, presumably because of security enhancements
or staff training following the earlier event(s). Repeat robberies
tend to happen soon after first robberies, and indirect evidence
suggests — consistent with more direct evidence from other studies —
that repeat robberies are substantially the work of the original robbers.
A surprising and potentially important conclusion of the study is that
banks differ greatly in their liability to repeat victimisation. Steps should
be taken to supplement the data available, so as to confirm this. However,
it is suggested that a meeting of senior bank security staff called by the Home Office Crimes Prevention Agency to discuss the data would
not be premature.
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MATTHEWS, R., PEASE, C. and PEASE, K., 2001. Repeated bank robbery: themes and variations. IN: FARRELL and PEASE (eds). Repeated bank robbery: themes and variations. Crime Prevention Studies, 12, pp. 153-164Publisher
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