The Allentown Stalker

On November 10, 1994, Harvey “Miggy” Robinson was sentence to death for multiple accounts of murdered, torture, and sexual assaults. After ten years of filing appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Robison will only be charged as an adult for the Fortney case, since he was eighteen when he committed the murder and sexual assult (Grimming, 46). The rational choice theory explains why Robison’s violent routine activity became a lifestyle after his first nonviolent crime. In the narrative of the Allentown Stalker, it states that Robinson was incarcerated in juvenile detention for eight months before he committed any violent crime (Grimming, 39). According to our lecture, after a juvenile’s first arrest they are most