Canadian Tire Store Case Study

1. There are multiple key actors at the beginning of this criminal event. For a criminal event to take place, three things need to take place which is a motivated offender, a suitable target and a lack of capable guardianship (Carleton, 2017a).
Here, we have a motivated 38-year-old Vancouver resident who committed multiple crimes in order to steal firearms. The suitable target would be the 52-year-old Canadian Tire clerk who was innocently victimized by the violent actions of another person. These two participants would likely overlap for a few reasons. In a Canadian Tire store, a clerk needs to unlock a cabinet before customers can buy them. The offender knew that in order to get the firearms he would have to interact with a store employee. Likely, the second the clerk opened the cabinet, the 380-pound motivated man attempted to overpower the targeted clerk by stabbing the clerk. This would have rendered the clerk from being able to functionally patrol the unlocked firearms, which would be considered the lack of capable guardianship to this criminal event.
The police officer who was stabbed in the torso and head while trying to arrest the suspect would have also been considered a victim as well. The police and the offender interacted because they wanted to subdue the man and prevent further
They may have done this for reasons because they didn't want to get involved or want to talk with the police. Since the crime was in a populated public place witnesses may innocently walk by and think nothing of it. They may have also thought that a lot of other people were around and it was being dealt with, which can be called the bystander effect (Dewall & Myers, 2015). In addition, bystanders can also make investigating harder and some information could be withheld. This could prevent a case from being solved or future arrests from being