Motivations for Robbery

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This paper examines a number of studies on the motivations for robbery, explaining that most studies found that the primary motive for robbing someone was the desire to acquire cash instantly. The paper also explains that adults' motives for robbery and juvenile motives for robbery are similar, and that gang membership is not a major motivation in robbery crimes. Furthermore, the paper explains that while a great number of robberies were committed so that the perpetrator could get cash for alcohol and drugs, many juvenile robberies were also committed because of social factors such as the desire for peer acceptance or because they thought it was "cool".

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"Robbery is the taking of a person's possession in his presence, with an accompanying threat or actual act of violence. It is different from burglary, wherein the victim need not be present. It also different from larceny such that there is no violence involved. Robbery is also different from extortion since in the latter, the threat of violence will happen in the future and not the present. Robbery is a felony or major crime. It is punishable by imprisonment and can be aggravated if the offender is armed or resorts to actual violence in committing the crime."

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