De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

Crimes are commited for different reasons. To me it seems a lot of what is commited isn't about stealing a piece of bread because you're hungry, it's more along the lines of I don't like my iphone3 I want an iphone4. I wont get a job or work I'll take it cos 'it's my right, innit'

No, I don't agree. Persistent thieves & robbers commit the crimes because someone else is willing to pay for the goods they obtain in this way, ie it is their 'job'. Bike thieves nick not to get new wheels, but to sell the wheels so that they can buy stuff with the money they get.

There are some opportunist crimes, but the kind of organised mugging that the 2 guys were doing (the original subject of this thread) was not spur of the moment, it was a criminal enterprise.