What Is Target Suitability?

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Target Suitability This article is about a man who sexually assaulted a nine-year-old boy in the Thorncliffe Public Library on October 9th 2015. Police are searching for the male suspect who fled the scene after another man stopped him during his actions. The article describes the man as white, short light-colored hair, with a medium build, he is around five-foot-eight, and in his late 40s to early 50s. He was wearing glasses, dark pants, and a leather jacket. Allegedly the male suspect was asking the boy for help and when the boy went to help the man, he was sexually assaulted. Target suitability is vital when planning on committing a crime. Target suitability is the desires of an offender to commit the crime as smooth and greatly as possible. An object, a person, or both can be the ideal targets for an offender. This theory has to do with offenders choosing their targets or victims before committing the crime. Offenders study victims’ lifestyles and activities to determine the best time to commit a crime. The objects offenders seek are cars, homes, establishments, and how accessible they are to him or her. When offenders are scouting for a victim they look at ones weight, size, and age. The article is related to the concept of target suitability because the offender targeted a young boy of the age of nine. The offender chose his victim …show more content…

This man had a target who he needed to kill and in order to be successful he had to kill himself in the process. In the bombers culture he believe that killing others was okay because he thought it was for the greater good. Culture conflict is defined as conflict of values between what is acceptable in ones culture compared to another. In this article the bombers culture was so strong that he believed in taking his own life to have what he believed to be the greater

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