NCJ Number
142593
Date Published
1993
Length
42 pages
Annotation
Statistics are presented to reflect the level of criminal activity and the types of crimes associated with convenience stores in Virginia.
Abstract
There were 148 convictions exclusively for robbing a convenience store in Virginia during 1991. The median sentence for a convicted convenience store robber was 10 years. It is estimated that each robber will serve 4-1/2 years in prison at a cost in 1991 of $76,500. The total number of offenders now serving time in Virginia prisons exclusively for robbing a convenience store exceeds 500. Robbery of convenience stores has risen 38 percent nationally and 51 percent in Virginia over the 1985-1991 period. Sixty-five localities reported 1,020 violent crimes in their stores: 6 homicides, 4 abductions, 6 rapes, 7 other sexual assaults, 12 malicious woundings, 923 robberies, and 62 attempted robberies. The majority of violent crimes in Virginia's convenience stores occurs at a small number of stores and is suffered by a disproportionately small number of Virginia's localities. 11 figures and 39 references