Disclaimer: This research paper does not necessarily reflect the policy position of the Commonwealth Government. Adam Graycar Director Bank robbery is costly at both a human level and a financial level. In order to minimise these costs, crime prevention measures need to be applied that are appropriate to the methods employed by bank robbers. Bank robbery has traditionally been seen as the domai...

The current study examines spatial dependence in robbery rates for a sample of 1,056 cities with 25,000 or more residents over the 2000-2003 period. Although commonly considered in some macro-level research, spatial processes have not been examined in relation to city-level variation in robbery. The results of our regression analyses suggest that city robbery rates are not spatially independent...

<bbery is defined as theft or attempted theft by force or hreat of violence. Robbery is perhaps the most impor:omponent of the urban crime problem; James Q. Wilson it "the most costly of all common crimes," due to its high chic and communal costs." This report describes recent ^ * P*** m robbery and presents a framework for yzing the potential effects of a variety of policy •ventions. few of th...

This paper exploits machine learning methods to separate robbery and intimidation cases, and predicting their sentencing by considering defined legal factors. We introduce a framework to fetch 21 legal factor labels of robbery and intimidation cases, then use the labels for case classification and sentencing prediction. Our experiments show that the legal factor labels can indeed improve the re...

BACKGROUND External/intrusive violence at work can result in psychological distress and can be an important risk to employee health and safety. However, the vast majority of workplace violence studies have employed cross-sectional and correlational research, designed to examine immediate reactions after being assaulted at work. AIMS To explore whether exposure to robbery as a traumatic event ...