And it involves violence. Robbery has increased and grown rapidly in the past several decades and is now rampant in the streets of this nation. It is destroying, ruining, and altogether becoming a major problem in contemporary urban life in the United States today. What I just mentioned is also true in Britain and Europe, but to a lesser extent than I just said. The process of preventing and controlling robbery is therefore an important, indeed one could say, highly significant item on the social agenda on both sides of the Atlantic ocean, which divides Europe from the United States.
Robbery is a legal term that has specific legal meanings.
These meanings include a fairly broad and wide spectrum of criminal activity. For example, the Great Train Robbery, which resulted in the loss of millions of pounds, would be included. Another thing that would be included is schoolyard bullies who engage in taking lunch money from other who attend the same schools that they go to. Of course robberies by schoolyard bullies are usually not reported or recorded in any way in today's society. As a practical matter, the vast majority of the robberies that are dealt with and handled by the police and the courts fall into a much narrower range of activities.