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NCJ Number: 91893 Find in a Library
Title: Crime Stoppers - Low Cost, No Cost Ways To Protect Yourself, Your Family, Your Home, and Your Car
Author(s): W Cox
Date Published: 1983
Annotation: This guide to personal crime prevention describes and illustrates low-cost or no-cost devices and techniques, as well as inner attitudes, that can thwart attacks on individuals and their property.
Abstract: This book initially discusses the use of broomsticks, nails, wire scraps, foil, cheap switches, free batteries, broken telephones, bent rods, clothespins, and string in constructing prevention devices. Specific suggestions on doors consider construction, hardware, dead bolts, barricades, an antijimmy plate, peepholes, and chains, along with fake tone pads and security system labels. Devices to secure windows are described, including sticks in the sash channel, pegging the sashes, and wedges. The author advocates using passive devices, notably foil to simulate alarm system strips and a fake alarm box. The guide then moves to homemade electrical and electronic systems that individuals can build for under $10.00. Among the gadgets explained are a scare-away neon bulb, flashers, sensors, arming devices, and alarms. Recommendations for outside security address lighting, a tape recorder watchman, constructing a safe from a sewer pipe, and places to store valuable papers or cash for emergencies. The guide describes procedures for adding cosmetic and active devices to protect cars along with techniques to outwit attackers from taking credit cards, money, and keys. The book also reviews people and places that are particularly vulnerable to crime, such as women and children, the elderly, hotel rooms, garages, and vacations. It provides sources of supplies and additional information, a security checklist, a glossary, and an index. Numerous drawings accompany the text.
Index Term(s): Personal Security/Self Protection; Physical crime prevention
Sponsoring Agency: Crown Publishers, Inc
New York, NY 10022
Sale Source: Crown Publishers, Inc
201 E. 50th Street
New York, NY 10022
United States of America
Page Count: 156
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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