Evaluating script-like knowledge in offenders and a small group of non-apprehended offenders

Hockey, David; Honey, Robert Colin

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2011.614611

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“…As the script holder becomes more familiar with the routine, less cognitive processing is required to perform it, and the route to obtaining the goal becomes more automated. A number of studies have utilized script theory (Cornish, 1994b;Cornish & Clarke, 1987;Hammond & Brown, 2005;Hockey & Honey, 2013;Huesmann, 1994;Huesmann & Eron, 1989;Michael, Hull, & Zahm, 2001;Nee & Taylor, 2000;Tunnell, 1992;Ward & Hudson, 2000;Wright & Decker, 1994), which have shown offender behavior to resemble the characteristics of scripts. Idiosyncratic routines (i.e., the modus operandi; Alison & Eyre, 2009;Homant & Kennedy, 2006) can develop from the basic offense script (Cornish, 1994a).…”

Section: Summarizing Burglar Performance Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That study focused on the statistical movement of the participants through the use of lagsequence analysis. In this article, the remaining interview data from Hockey and Honey (2013), is thematically analysied. A comparison of the rationale and decision making between the two groups is explored and located within the script theory framework.…”

Section: Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To explore this in the context of burglary, Hockey and Honey (2013) compared the hypothetical movements generated by the non-apprehended group and the experienced but apprehended group during a burglary scenario. They used a lag-sequential analysis, which revealed that the nonapprehended offenders took more steps to progress through the different stages (i.e., prior to entry; during the acquisitive phase and withdrawing from the scene).…”

Section: General Issues Regarding Detected and Undetected Offendersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Hockey and Honey (2013), the analysis was concerned with plotting the movements around the burglary crime scene for each participant. The data were generated from semistructured interviews.…”

Section: Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The data were generated from semistructured interviews. In Hockey and Honey (2013), it was only the data that related to a participant's whereabouts at the crime scene, which was analyzed. The results showed that the non-apprehended burglars engaged in a pattern that was quite different from the apprehended burglars.…”

Section: Articlementioning

confidence: 99%

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Burglary Crime Scene Rationality of a Select Group of Non-Apprehend Burglars

Hockey

2016

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Burglary continues to yield low detection rates, and although the characteristics of how burglaries are committed has been investigated in some detail, less is known about how burglars avoid detection generally and in particular the activities of non-apprehended burglars. To investigate this issue, one can at least in principle investigate the special case of burglars who claim to have avoided apprehension in spite of the fact that they have committed a large number of burglaries over time. The approach taken here was to thematically analyze the interview data from a previous study comparing the crime scene movements of a small group of non-apprehended burglars with experienced but apprehended burglars. The results here from a thematic analysis of that previous study revealed marked differences in the rationales between the experienced, apprehended burglars and the experienced non-apprehended burglars when implementing different crime scene behaviors. A series of techniques and strategies emerges, which appear to aid in avoiding detection around the burglary scene and are summarized with implications discussed.

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