Conventional Property Crime Flashcards
What percentage of al police recorded crime is Property Crime?
72%
What percentage of all incidents measured by the CSEW is property crime?
80%
What is property crime?
Crimes that aim to acquire property in an illegal way.
When did burglary peak?
Peaked in 90s but now declining by 700,000 incidents a year
How many households had been a victim of burglary?
2.1%
Why is the dark number small?
People need to claim on insurance.
If the offender is not caught within 24 hours what are the chances of them being caught?
1%
What is distraction burglary?
Talk way into house pretending to be an official, usually prey on elderly.
What time of day is crme most likely to occur?
evening and night
Who are the victims of burglary?
The young and less well off are more vulnerable than the older and the wealthier
What percentage of victims are repeat victims?
15%
What is Bernasco’s (2008) “Near Repeat”?
if 1 house is burgled then the properties around that house have an increased risk of being burgled. i.e Similarly designed houses in neighbourhoods
Who are the offenders?
Young, male and poor
What are planners?
Professionals - carefully think it out
What are searchers?
Intention of committing but wander looking for way in
What are opportunists?
Provided with opportunity i.e. open window
What are the 2 theoretical perspectives?
Financial motives (drug addictions Rational Choice Theory
According to Bernasco & Luykx (2003), what is the rational choice process of target selection?
Attractiveness
Opportunity - enough opportunity to successfully commit crime
Accessibility - How familiar they are with area, usually within 1 mile radius
What is “distance decay”?
Frequency of burlaries decreases with the distance of the target from the burglars home
What is situational crime prevention
Refers to places not people, changing environment to make crime harder
What are examples of formal surveillance?
police cctv
What is informal surveillance?
Difficult to reduce rewards, so should mark property as makes it less valuable to burglar. eg neighbourhood watch
How can you increase the difficulty of commission?
Target hardening but displacement
How can you increase the risk of detection?
Formal and informal surveillance
What is the Kirkholt Burlglary prevention project?
Forrester, Chatterton & Pease 1988
Focussed on victims
Target removal: removal of prepayment fuel meters
target hardening: improved security
Increase surveillance: ‘cocoon neighbourhood watch’
saw dramatic reduction on overall level of burglary,a s well as reduction in rate of repeat victimisation - therefore very valuable to invest ib crime prevention stategies
