Stickup, Street Culture, and Offender Motivation

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Stick-up, Street Culture, and Offender
Motivation
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Background Risk Factors
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What do they mean?

• Instant gratification and hedonistic sensation
  seeking are quite functional for those seeking
  pleasure in what may objectively be viewed as a
  largely pleasureless world.?

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Consumption and Status Enhancement
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The Norms of Street Culture
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Padlock on the Exit Door
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Millers Lower ClassFocal Concerns

• Toughness
• Trouble
• Excitement
• Smartness
• Autonomy
• Fate

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Affluenza
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The Absence of Choice
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Incapacitation