Weapons, Body Postures, and the Quest for Dominance in Robberies: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Footage

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0289
Nama Orang :	Floris Mosselman Don Weenink Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Sage - Crime and Justice, 2018

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Abstrak	Objective: A small-scale exploration of the use of video analysis to study robberies. We analyze the use of weapons as part of the body posturing of robbers as they attempt to attain dominance. Methods: Qualitative analyses of video footage of 23 shop robberies. We used Observer XT software (version 12) for fine-grained multimodal coding, capturing diverse bodily behavior by various actors simultaneously. We also constructed story lines to understand the robberies as hermeneutic whole cases. Results: Robbers attain dominance by using weapons that afford aggrandizing posturing and forward movements. Guns rather than knives seemed to fit more easily with such posturing. Also, victims were more likely to show minimizing postures when confronted with guns. Thus, guns, as part of aggrandizing posturing, offer more support to robbers claims to dominance in addition to their more lethal power. In the cases where resistance occurred, rob bers either expressed insecure body movements or minimizing postures and related weapon usage or they failed to impose a robbery frame as the victims did not seem to comprehend the situation initially. Conclusions: Video analysis opens up a new perspective of how violent crime unfolds as sequences of bodily movements. We provide methodological recom mendations and suggest a larger scale comparative project
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	robberies, violent crime, interactionism, video analysis
ISSN
Tahun Terbit	2018
No. Induk	eja-21-0289
Entri Sumber Data	Sage - Crime and Justice
Entri Utama Nama orang	Floris Mosselman; Don Weenink; Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 55, no. 1, p. 3-26
Barcode	eja-21-0289
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	Weapons, Body Postures, and the Quest for Dominance in Robberies: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Footage
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional