The report summarises what is known about the extent and nature of armed robbery nationally, highlighting the reductions in the number of these crimes in 1994 and 1995. It goes on to examine the policing strategies in two very different forces the Metropolitan Police and South Yorkshire Police showing how the police response can be tailored to the particular environment and local circumstances....

BACKGROUND Restoration of control of dynamic scapular motion by specific activation of the serratus anterior and lower trapezius muscles is an important part of functional rehabilitation. This study evaluated activation of those muscles in specific exercises. HYPOTHESIS Specific exercises will activate key scapular-stabilizing muscles in clinically significant amplitudes and patterns. STUDY...

In this work we introduce Quixote, a system that makes programming virtual agents more accessible to nonprogrammers by enabling these agents to be trained using the sociocultural knowledge present in stories. Quixote uses a corpus of exemplar stories to automatically engineer a reward function that is used to train virtual agents to exhibit desired behaviors using reinforcement learning. We sho...

Surveys of self-reported behaviors of adolescents and young adults indicate high rates of offending among these age groups (Elliott et al., 1983; Lauritsen, Sampson, and Laub, 1991). Similarly, surveys of victims’ perceptions of offender characteristics indicate that the most common age group for offenders committing rape, robbery, and assault is youth ages 18–20, followed by juveniles ages 15–...

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This paper reports on research undertaken in Western Australia in 1993 on violence associated with robbery and property crime. Firsthand accounts from 88 offenders and 10 victims are examinedfor information and perspectives that may be relevant to the prevention of such violence. Results suggest that violence occurring in the course of a robbery or a property crime is most effectively prevented...

This study examines the relationship between gun availability and crime in a cross-national sample of cities. Data from the International Crime Victimization Survey are used to examine three competing hypotheses. The results of the limited information maximum least squares regression analyses suggest that gun availability influences rates of assault, gun assault, robbery, and gun robbery. These...