ABSTRACT
Robbers do attack women, but given the photo judgments on the ‘easiness’ of women, this occurs infrequently. The typical way for all robbers to choose their victim on their last offence was by knowledge, acquired through employment, residence, watching or gossip. For non-commercial robbery, P. J. Cook argued that robbers make strategic choices according to their potency in generating a convincing threat and overcoming the victim’s resistance and the perceived vulnerability, availability and attractiveness of the potential victim. The origin of the lack of predictability of women as robbery victims is perhaps as follows. Older women in particular will not be frightened by robbers, or intimidated by stoat-like mesmerism. Women are not usually experienced in physical violence, nor are they usually struck or encouraged to fight. Women who have been attacked might be thought to have to be described in derogatory manners, but such seemed not to be the case, at least openly.
