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Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence
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 surveillan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31044635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519845713 |
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author | Liebst, Lasse Suonperä Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz Bernasco, Wim |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-82763312021-08-03 Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence Liebst, Lasse Suonperä Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz Bernasco, Wim J Interpers Violence Online-only Articles 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. SAGE Publications 2019-05-02 2021-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8276331/ /pubmed/31044635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519845713 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Online-only Articles Liebst, Lasse Suonperä Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz Bernasco, Wim Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title | Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title_full | Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title_fullStr | Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title_full_unstemmed | Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title_short | Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence |
title_sort | dissecting the role of dominance in robberies: an analysis and implications for microsociology of violence |
topic | Online-only Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8276331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31044635 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260519845713 |
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