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55 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd55 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Weapons, Body Postures, and the Quest for Dominance in Robberies: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Footage journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 2018, Vol. 55(1) 3-26 @ The Author(s) 2018 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0022427817706525 journals.sagepub.com/home/j rc OSAGE Floris Mosselman', Don Weenink', and Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard2 Abstract 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 I2) 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 Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Corresponding Author: Don Weenink, Universiteit van Amsterdam, PO Box 15508, 1001 NA Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Email: d.weenink@uva.nl

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