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    were times of legends, cowboys, train robberies, and valiant acts of courage. There are many different things you could discuss when talking about the Western era and I wanted to discuss the train robberies by comparing a film and a piece of artwork. Although both The Great Train Robbery by Edwin S Porter and “Wilcox Train Robbery” by Andy Thomas convey how the west was a place where you did what you had to do to survive.Edwin S Porter emphasizes the train robbery and how people would go to any length

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    What Is Street Robbery?

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    What is Street Robbery? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines robbery as “the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear (FBI, 2010).” Monk, Heinonen and Eck (2010) further displayed the five necessary characteristics of the street crime: 1. “the offender targets a victim; 2. the victim is a pedestrian and a

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    Robbery: The Victims and Offenders Julio M. Guerrero Tarleton State University DISPATCH: “Attention all units, Attention all units. A robbery just occurred at the Chase bank. Suspect is armed and dangerous. Suspect left the scene in a small car heading south.” UNIT: “Clear dispatch. Show me heading to Chase bank. Any other description?” DISPATCH: “Male suspect, approximately five feet ten inches, wearing all black and a ski mask. Suspect displayed a firearm, silver in color.” In large

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    The Brink's robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, At 3:55 pm, Brink's guards Peter Paige and Joe Trombino emerged from the mall carrying bags of money, Buck was arrested in 1985. The last person to be arrested in connection with it was Willams (Shakur), the ringleader of the robbery, in 1986, Gilbert, Weems, and Clark were the first of the Brink's robbers to go to trial, On October 6, 1983, he sentenced each defendant to three consecutive twenty-five year-to-life sentences

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    Robbery occurs every day, almost every 2 minutes in the United States leaving over 300,000 people victimized. Furthermore, these robberies that take place not only affect the victims by financial loss due to stolen property, but the crime also causes a great impact on the victims according to the FBI Uniform crime Report (2013). Robbery is known as an offenders attempt to take or the taking of things that have value from individuals in public places. In addition, robbery is an action that can be

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    National Bureau of Investigation defines robbery as the attempting or taking one’s personal property by force, threat or violence. The most important evidence in a robbery is putting the victims in fear of taking his/her belongings by force. Some crimes of robbery are giving death threats to the victim. It is not robbery when the crimes are intentionally spreading rumors and scandals of the victims in the past. Another reason when they are in the spirit of alcohol or drugs.If the victim was threatened

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    MYSTERY OF THE ANI-BANK ROBBERY Animal Woods is a beautiful land of animal kingdom. Ani Bank is running many ATMs for the benefit of its customers. But lots of robberies are taking place recently and money is getting stolen from Ani bank ATMs. One evening Mr Jumbo, the famous detective and his assistant, a small little elephant Jolly were enjoying a cup of coffee at Jumbo’s house.Jumbois a really great detective.But nowadays he is little old and likes to relax in his house at Elephantine road. Suddenly

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    felony of robbery. While the common law of robbery has existed throughout the centuries, not much has changed in some of the modern state statues found today with the exception of creating degrees. Robbery, under common law is “the face to face threat or use of force to obtain property directly from an individual or from their proximity with the intent to permanently deprive them of that property” (Bower, 2014). The elements of robbery under common law are robbery actus reus and robbery mens rea

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    minute and everyday someone in the United States gets robbed. Not even just a regular robbery, an armed robbery. An armed robbery is a serious crime which can lead up to several years in prison and in some cases a life sentence. This particular day wasn’t so pleasant for me, my brother, and especially my friend Joi. We went from having a great time during the day, to an unexpected nightmare at night. Robberies are scary to be involved with. They can be terrifying and also can impact many people in

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    Going Where No Man Has Gone Before The motives for a crime are sometimes not as clear as some may believe. In the Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton, Edward Pierce had complex motives for his crime. He was aware of how difficult the robbery would be, and decided to undergo the whole ordeal for that reason alone. Edward Pierce decided to commit the train robbery to know that he can succeed in completing a massive challenge few have attempted. Pierce chose to rob the train because of the difficulty

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