[PDF] Top 20 The Reducing Burglary Initiative: investigating burglary

... the burglary team had a full briefing at ...offences, burglary figures, and the release of offenders from ...the burglary team sergeant produced a document summarising the team’s activities over the ... See full document

... The idea that problems of crime and disorder can best be tackled by a range of agencies and services working ‘in partnership’ has come to be increasingly influential in the UK over the last 20 years. Since the early ... See full document

... Effective burglary prevention programmes such as those in Manchester and Edmonton displayed high levels of burglary repeats and near repeats prior to the imple- mentation of the initiatives to counter the ... See full document

... domestic burglary has remained high on the agenda of government and law enforcement policy for a number of years (Hamilton-Smith and Kent, 2005), and there have been a number of large scale national measures aimed ... See full document

... the Reducing Burglary Initiative (Study 8) that the particular activities of a particular crime prevention project – ironically focussing specifically on repeat burglary prevention – appeared ... See full document

... in burglary) to an intervention or group of interventions that is subject to evaluation ...non-SDP initiative was scored on a number of criteria including the size of its budget, coterminosity in terms of ... See full document

... conflict among partners emerged because of the perception of some that the project was focusing on burglary to the exclusion of other more pressing crime issues (namely, drugs). However, one of the interventions ... See full document

... Results from a crime survey conducted in the United Kingdom that incorporates dif- ferent operationalizations of PCOs (all more direct than the common measurements) are suited to challenge the previous consensus. ... See full document

... committing burglary, which included many ...committing burglary, it was suggested to formulize, implant, and evaluate plans to decrease negative sensation seeking, especially among teenagers and young ...on ... See full document

... the burglary rate in the PFA showed only a slight reduction, the crime rate in the BCU remained stable, and the rate in the comparison area actually increased ...the burglary rate in the entire SDP saw a ... See full document

... Targeted policing activity is optimized by the integration of, on the one hand, policing experience and skill, and on the other skilled analysis of crime data. Cope (2004) found that police officers’ lack of ... See full document

... As far as we are aware, the majority of published crime reduction evaluations have, in the past, utilised recorded crime (and other) data that is aggregated to particular geographical area units such as police beats or ... See full document

... residential burglary. First, though, it is important to ask why residential burglary is worthy of scholarly attention in the first ...residential burglary) have been decreasing significantly since ... See full document

... as the basis for prosecution of computer crimes at the state level are arson (burning with malice) 68 and burglary (felonious intent to commit larceny or, more recentl[r] ... See full document

... predominantly a masculine offence, as noted by Shover (1991, p. 87) in his review of burglary related literature. Indeed, according to official statistics for England and Wales, 97% of those convicted of ... See full document

... As already mentioned above, the new media influence the use of the traditional media. This is supported by Dimmick et al. (2004) who state that “the Internet has a competitive displacement effect on the traditional media ... See full document

... domestic burglary crime drop presented here, we are interested in equality of ...of burglary incidence (measured as number of crimes per 1000 households) was equal across all individuals or areas as a ... See full document

... about burglary often assumes a ‘top-down’ approach, placing most of the drivers of crime rate change in the hands of government; while reducing private citizens to passive, isolated individuals, and civil ... See full document

... There is also on the market a lock plate which can be so installed on the outside of the door as to completely cover the outside cylinder except for the key opening which is available th[r] ... See full document

... Crime Perceptions Measures Individual estimates of the perceived likelihood of future victimization and estimates of burglary rates are both burglary perception measures.. However, it is[r] ... See full document