Street Criminal Retaliation Summary

Jacobs, B., (2004). A Typology of Street Criminal Retaliation. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 41, 295-323. The purpose of this article is to explain retaliation and the various different types. Also to help better understand the concepts of crime as well as social control in order to catalog retaliation variation. Views regarding the reasons why criminals use retaliation mechanisms are also discussed. It is mentioned that one of the criminals use retaliation is to restore balance due to the loss of legal protection when violated (Jacobs, 2004, p. 296). The fact that it is not possible to understand the role of retaliation pertaining to the spread of urban violence without characterizing the possible reasons for it and its variation is also mentioned (Jacobs, 2004, p. 296). This article also touches points on retaliation literature. The ways in which retaliation has been examined were

318). He also found that although retaliation without face-to-face contact with the violator may deliver harm, it is not the type of harm which cuts to the core of street values (Jacobs, 2004, p. 314). The preference for direct contact was outstandingly unified, and the violators which were used in the study were strangers, friends, loose acquaintances, and family members of varying equal statuses (Jacobs, 2004, p. 315). In this article, the author indicated that his findings helped to support the central purpose of the sample. Included was the different preferences and reasons for retaliation or not retaliating and prolonged retaliation or instant retaliation. For example one might not retaliate against the violator, but sometimes someone close to them. This is sometimes an option of last result, or an option when the violator cannot be located (Jacobs, 2004, p.