The Victimization of Robbery, what is robbery? Robbery is defined to be the "taking of personal property of another from the other's person or presence by force or intimidation with the intent to permanently deprive him of it". There must be force involved, and the victim must be present. Robbery is considered a felony in all states. Aggravated robbery is generally defined to involve the use of a deadly weapon. .
The relationship between the offender is mostly between strangers. On a national level robberies are a huge problem. Last year there were a total of 458,460 Robberies committed 341,910 Completed property taken, 159,120 With injury, 182,790 Without Injury, 116,550 Attempted to take property, 39,040 With injury, 77,510 Without injury. Robbery is a serious problem in our country as you can see. 72.% of all robberies involves victim stranger and 27.9% involves nonstranger relationship between victim and offender. There are no assigned positions for robberies except for victim and offender. 323,530 of the robberies have been done by males and 188,960 of them are done by females. .
Physical strength is usually what gives the offender the advantage to rob someone that or a deadly weapon. Most victims are not as strong or equipped with dealing with a robbery and being shoved around by force is a startling thing to a person. Becoming robbed at a convience store causes Psychological Issues such as being afraid to ever work at a store like that again, always the fear of being robbed while there alone and a raise in nervousness and stress. .
The victimization involves the victim being held up for whatever the offender wants and sometimes getting injured in the process the offender uses physical and verbal assault at most times calling the victim names etc. Although no relationship plays a part in robberies the ones that do can easily be handled where as they know each other so the chance of injury is decreased dramatically.
