ABSTRACT
Just as bakers need grain and construction workers bricks, so street robbers require victims to rob. To understand the phenomenon of street crime, it is therefore important to study a range of interrelated factors connected with becoming both a suitable and available victim for a street robbery. First, we need to establish why more people appear in recent years more suitable as victims than was previously the case. Second, we need to understand the factors that leave more people vulnerable to attack than previously. Finally, we need to examine these factors in relation to the availability of victims to motivated offenders.
