Suburban Burglary
Suburban Burglary

Author: George Rengert

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780398083243

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Unique in approach and engrossing in presentation, this book explores the elements of suburban residential burglary. In this revision, the chapters have been updated and a new chapter included on how burglars select their homes. The authors draw on in-depth interviews with admitted burglars as well as their own criminal justice experience to identify the social, psychological and environmental factors that encourage burglary. They show how the social regulation of individuals' time, the ways in which postwar suburban planning and architecture conflict with current lifestyles, and reactive tech.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY
RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY

Author: George F. Rengert

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 039808680X

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This updated and expanded new edition continues its unique approach and engrossing exploration of the elements of residential burglary. Presented in five parts, the first is concerned with what is on a burglar’s mind when he or she considers whether to commit a burglary and which house to choose. The second part is concerned with time and the opportunities and limits it places on both burglar and victim, while the third section probes how burglaries are fit into space and the importance of perception of space in the burglary process. The fourth section describes how burglars select a home to burglarize and uses Greenwich, Connecticut as a model to contrast target and nontarget homes. The fifth part reviews some of the “nuts and bolts” techniques and reasons for their use as described by burglars and addresses elements about housing architecture, the burglary process, and offers suggestions for controlling the problem of burglary. It concludes with a discussion of changes in our lifestyles and communities and how these changes will play out in future patterns of residential burglary. The authors draw on in-depth interviews with admitted burglars, and the inclusion of the ideas and actual words of the burglars brings the material to life. The text continues to offer the most unique overview of residential burglary. It combines ethnographic research with study of official records and combines the strengths of both approaches.

Burglary
Burglary

Author: Rob Mawby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1135987475

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Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public. Victims are particularly affected by burglary, and burglary is generally at the centre of crime prevention and community safety strategies. This book provides an accessible, systematic account of burglary, focusing on the problem of crime in the first main part of the book, and on policy responses in the second. This book identifies the particularcharacteristics of burglary as a crime, drawing upon an extensive range of research in both the UK and elsewhere. It will be of interest to both students of criminology and criminal justice and practitioners in policing and crime prevention, and it looksat burglary in both national and international contexts. Professor Mawby is particularly well qualified to write on this subject, being involved in policy initiatives at local, national and international levels, as well as being editor of a leading crime prevention journal. accessible and authoritative account of one of the most important crimes and policy responses to itauthor ideally qualified in view of experience of local, national and international crime prevention initiatives.