Essays on Robbery

Big Picture Case “There’s been a botched bank robbery downtown. Two clerks are dead. A gunman has fled on foot. A reporter for the all-news radio station in town rushes to the scene, and police give her this description of the suspect: a black male,…

Writing Assignment #3 Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian men who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Robberies and murders had taken place in Massachusetts from December 1919 to April 1920. The police had…

In the novel The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, the illicit actions of ordinary citizens in Victorian London were commonplace. Mid 19th century English society was marred by pervasive malfeasance. The types of unlawful activities ranged from petty pick-pocketing to full scale mastermind plots,…