Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Micro-Sociology of Violence
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Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies : An Analysis and Implications for Micro-Sociology of Violence. / Liebst, Lasse Suonperä; Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz; Bernasco, Wim.
I: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Bind 36, Nr. 15-16, 2021, s. NP8668-NP8686 .Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies
T2 - An Analysis and Implications for Micro-Sociology of Violence
AU - Liebst, Lasse Suonperä
AU - Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz
AU - Bernasco, Wim
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The influential microsociological theory of violence advanced by Randall Collins suggests that emotional dominance preconditions physical violence. Here, we examine robbery incidents as counterevidence of this proposition. Using 50 video clips of real-life commercial robberies recorded by surveillance cameras, we observed, coded, and analyzed the interpersonal behaviors of offenders and victims in microdetail. We found no support for Collins’s hypothesized link between dominance and violence, but evidence against it instead. It is the absence, not the presence, of emotional offender dominance that promotes offender violence. We consider these results in the light of criminological research on robbery violence and suggest that Collins’s strong situational stance would benefit from a greater appreciation of instrumental motivation and cold-headed premeditation.
AB - The influential microsociological theory of violence advanced by Randall Collins suggests that emotional dominance preconditions physical violence. Here, we examine robbery incidents as counterevidence of this proposition. Using 50 video clips of real-life commercial robberies recorded by surveillance cameras, we observed, coded, and analyzed the interpersonal behaviors of offenders and victims in microdetail. We found no support for Collins’s hypothesized link between dominance and violence, but evidence against it instead. It is the absence, not the presence, of emotional offender dominance that promotes offender violence. We consider these results in the light of criminological research on robbery violence and suggest that Collins’s strong situational stance would benefit from a greater appreciation of instrumental motivation and cold-headed premeditation.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - robbery
KW - emotional dominance
KW - violence
KW - microsociology of violence
KW - CCTV
U2 - 10.1177/0886260519845713
DO - 10.1177/0886260519845713
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31044635
VL - 36
SP - NP8668-NP8686
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
SN - 0886-2605
IS - 15-16
ER -
ID: 215131664