Profiling Home-Invasion Robbery: Exploring Patterns of Perpetration

by Erica Hutton

Home-invasions involve a confrontation between the offender(s) and the occupant(s) as well as a probable violent altercation(s) that most often occurs during the removal of items or commission of a secondary offense. A home-invasion robbery is an offense involving unlawful entry into a private and occupied residence with the objective of committing a crime. This form of violence places the resident under extreme intimidation and involves a terrorizing confrontation between offender(s) and the resident(s) of the home. Theoretically speaking, the offender who commits the crime of a home-invasion robbery rationalizes that entering into another’s home is vindicated to complete a mission, search, theft, kidnapping, sexual assault, or even murder. Realistically speaking, the home-invasion offender is enamored with the immediacy of rewards, utilizing coercion to achieve their goals and finding exuberance resulting from the enforcement of terror.

164 pages, Paperback

First published May 26, 2014