The best way to rob a bank

Aleksandar Maršavelski; John Braithwaite

doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i1.466

The best way to rob a bank

Aleksandar Maršavelski
, John Braithwaite^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Cohen and Machalek's (1988) evolutionary ecological theory of crime explains why obscure forms of predation can be the most lucrative. Sutherland explained that it is better to rob a bank at the point of a pen than of a gun. The US Savings and Loans scandal of the 1980s suggested 'the best way to rob a bank is to own one'. Lure constituted by the anomie of warfare and transition to capitalism in former Yugoslavia revealed that the best way to rob a bank is to control the regulatory system: that is, to control a central bank. This makes possible theft of all the people's money in a society. The criminological imagination must attune to anomie created by capitalism, and to the evolutionary ecology of lure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	123-138
Number of pages	16
Journal	International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i1.466
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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