TY - BOOK AU - Lochner,Hendrik Thomas AU - Van Staden,Peet TI - Transito: the truth behind the big-money robberies T2 - Routledge/UNISA Press series SN - 9781000838336 U1 - 364.162 23 PY - 2023/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Robbery KW - Prevention KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh KW - LAW / Criminal Law / General KW - LAW / Discrimination N1 -
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Preface
Foreword
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Into the face of violence
Chapter 2: The Modus Operandi
Chapter 3: The ultimate crime
Chapter 4: Who are these robbers?
Chapter 5: Planning a CIT robbery
Chapter 6: Homing in
Chapter 7: Calculating the risk
Chapter 8: Wheels: The key to a CIT heist
Chapter 9: Intimidation: A crucial CIT weapon
Chapter 10: Outgunning the guards
Chapter 11: Sangomas, women and drink
Chapter 12: Hi-tech crime
Chapter 13: Hitting the target
Chapter 14: The critical time factor
Chapter 15: Getting away
Chapter 16: Lots and lots of money
Chapter 17: Cops or robbers?
Chapter 18: Defeating the ends of justice
Chapter 19: Getting caught
Chapter 20: Advice from the robbers
References
Index
N2 - This book is an important resourcefor the cash in transit (CIT) companies, financial services industries and criminal justice system. With one of the authors having used convicts of CIT crimes as participants for a PhD study, he solicited data from the lived experiences of CIT robbers that reveal their modus operandi, which is crucial to combat these robberies. The authors reveal how CIT robbers meticulously plan and execute their ambushes collaborating with the sophisticated network of accomplices. The book is thus a timely publication that provides information to combat CIT crimes UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003367376 ER -