| NCJ Number: |
184471  |
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| Title: |
From Research to Policy: Preventing Residential Burglary Through a Systems Approach |
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| Journal: |
American Journal of Criminal Justice Volume:24 Issue:2 Dated:Spring 2000 Pages:169-179 |
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| Author(s): |
Matthew B. Robinson |
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| Date Published: |
2000 |
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| Page Count: |
11 |
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Program/Project Description |
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| Format: |
Article |
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| Language: |
English |
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| Country: |
United States of America |
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| Annotation: |
This article examines environmental changes which can lower risks of residential burglary victimization. |
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| Abstract: |
The paper discusses burglary prevention strategies at different levels of analysis, including individual, group, community, organizational, and societal levels. The article reviews studies of surveillability and residential burglary; accessibility and residential burglary; non-occupancy and residential burglary; and lifestyles, routine activities, and residential burglary. It then advances several crime prevention policy implications using a systems approach derived from those studies. The strategies, which describe actions at all five levels mentioned above, might include promoting higher volumes of irregular pedestrian and automotive traffic; decreasing the regularity or predictability of periods of non-occupancy; increasing interaction and socialization among neighbors; not leaving flyers or other advertising on doors, which might alert a burglar to the fact that there is no one to remove them or to guard the property inside; and establishing neighborhood watch programs. References |
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| Main Term(s): |
Crime prevention measures |
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| Index Term(s): |
Block watch; Burglary; Citizen crime precautions; Community crime prevention programs; Community involvement; Environmental design; Property crimes; Residential security; Security; Threat assessment |
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To cite this abstract, use the following link:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=184471 |
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