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 -