The Planning of Crime
The Planning of Crime
This chapter analyzes criminal planning behavior, focusing on the factors that shape the choices made by criminals in planning a crime. Using convenience store robberies as the setting for empirical investigation of the criminal-planning model, it probes more closely into the relationship between the planning behaviors of criminals and consequences of committing crimes. The model presented in this chapter builds on the classic time-allocation approach to illegal activity, highlighting the three important criminal-planning decisions: the use of an accomplice, the use of a weapon, and the use of scarce planning time itself. The chapter also discusses how these choices vary with individual and environmental factors: loot, the robbery sanction, apprehension probability, criminal productivity, opportunity costs and endogenous factors.
Keywords: criminal planning, planning, crime, robberies, accomplice, weapon, loot, robbery sanction, apprehension probability, planning behavior
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