Date of Award
8-1985
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Sociology
First Advisor
Dr. Paul C. Friday
Second Advisor
Dr. Lewis Walker
Third Advisor
Dr. Ronald Kramer
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
This study identifies some major factors related to robbery, categorizes them, and attempts to assess their interrelatedness. The major purpose of the study is to explore how these factors can be studied more effectively in an attempt to explain the crime. Data on randomly selected convicted robbery cases in the Kalamazoo County during 1979-1983 were compiled and analyzed.
The study shows that factors related to robbery fall into four categories. These are: (a) social factors, (b) Individual offender characteristics, (c) situational factors, and (d) push factors (or motivational factors). The results of the analyses showed that these factors are closely Interrelated. It was determined in the study that there is a need to develop a multidimensional approach to the crime. Such a theoretical orientation should emphasize the need to organize factors related to robbery and to study them together in the attempt to explain the crime.
Recommended Citation
Andzenge, Dick Taver'shima, "Robbery: Toward a Multidimensional Approach" (1985). Masters Theses. 1366.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1366