ABSTRACT
As with any other offence, street robbery is perpetrated in the context of attempts by various control agents to prevent it. To study why an offence such as street robbery has risen in recent years, it is therefore important to study why the range of interventions that society imposes to prevent this offence have not worked. In addition to studying the dyad between offenders and victims – examined in the previous two chapters – we must also consider the various deficits in social control which have not prevented motivated offenders from preying on their victims.
