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Publisher's Note: This is powerful & significant study of armed robbers & their crimes. From street muggers to bank robbers, they tell why they do it, how they do it & why people get hurt. The study explores the thinking & motives of the robbers & examines what they look for when they plan to rob. Special attention is given to how convenience store robbers differ from other robbers. For the study, 310 armed robbers were surveyed in 1995 in 20 prisons in three states--Maryland, Washington & Texas. A follow-up of a survey conducted ten years earlier, the findings are compared, & the changes in society & crime during that time are reflected. Erickson, a sociologist who has contributed to the research & literature on robbery for over twenty years, adds her insight to the experience of these robbers, & offers suggestions for the persistent & always difficult problem of commercial crime.