Research on Burglary at the End of the Millennium: A Grounded Approach to Understanding Crime

Abstract

Surprisingly little focus has been given to explanations of specific types of crime, and the motivations, cognitions and behaviour that exemplify them. Of the property crimes which make up a notable proportion of recorded offending, residential burglary has been researched the most and represents the single-most developed type

Debts and Threats: Managing Inability to Repay Credits in Illicit Drug Distribution

“…The limited research that compares active and imprisoned populations also shows remarkable consistency in how they talk about their crimes (Nee, 2003), which confirms our own experience from both active offender research and research on imprisoned offenders. When analyzing data, it was not possible for us to distinguish between interviews where participants were compensated and those where they were not.…”

What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime

“…In other words, before selecting their target, burglars will first select a particular town, then a neighbourhood, and finally a street. Results from a variety of studies that have applied different methodologies, including offender interviewing, discrete spatial choice analysis and experiments, suggest that general environmental characteristics play an important role throughout this target selection process (Bennett & Wright, 1984b;Bernasco & Nieuwbeerta, 2005;Nee, 2003;Nee & Meenaghan, 2006;. These characteristics help burglars to select a suitable target area before relying on more detailed characteristics when narrowing down their choice to a particular house.…”

Crime Prevention through Housing Design

“…• Minimising access, through movement and connectivity (Bevis and Nutter, 1977;Rubenstein et al, 1980;Taylor and Gottfredson, 1987;Van der Voordt and Van Wegen, 1990;White, 1990;Poyner and Webb, 1991;Matthews, 1992;Atlas and LeBlanc, 1994;Beavon et al, 1994;Newman, 1995Newman, , 1996Donnelly and Kimble, 1997;Wagner, 1997;Lasley, 1998;Mirlees-Black et al, 1998;Rengert and Hakim, 1998;Zavoski et al, 1999;Hakim et al, 2001;Taylor, 2002;Nubani and Wineman, 2005;Armitage, 2006a;Yang, 2006;Farrington and Welsh, 2009;Johnson and Bowers, 2010;Armitage et al, 2010). • Increasing surveillance (Reppetto, 1974;Winchester and Jackson, 1982;Brown and Altman, 1983;Coleman, 1986;Taylor and Gottfredson, 1987;Van der Voordt and Van Wegen, 1990;Cromwell and Olson, 1991;Brown and Bentley, 1993;Groff and LaVigne, 2001;Nee, 2003). • Managing and maintaining developments (Zimbardo, 1970;Finnie, 1973;Wilson and Kelling, 1982;…”