Security issue: Burglary

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Security issue: breaking and entering

Breaking and entering is the crime of illicitly entering a building with the intent to committing an offense, particularly (but not limited to) theft.

Description

Attributing circumstances

Socio-economic causes

Although there is no real scientific consensus with respect to the causal relationship between the socio-economic background and property crime like breaking and entering, Australian research for example shows that long term unemployment amongst young male adolescents has a substantial effect on property crime rates[1].

Enthorf and Spengler(2002)[2] find that planning-intense offences like breaking and entering, robbery and violent respond relatively slow to changes in the socio-economic conditions compared to other types of crime like drug and alcohol abuse and violent crime. According to the authors, this may reflect that in a first response to unfortunate social and economic developments some of the affected might become attracted to alcohol and drug abuse, which in a later phase has to financed with criminal activities by committing property crimes like breaking and entering.

Impacts

Social impacts

  • Perception of unsafety
  • ...

Economic impacts

Types of impact, indication of gravity

Mobility impacts

Safety impacts

  • Loss of shelter by damages (broken windows, etc)
  • Loss of privacy
  • Wounded, dead
  • ...

Measures

Potential measures that can mitigate the likelihood or impact of assault, are:

  • Surveillance
  • Reaction force
  • Social measures (?)
  • No secluded areas (mobility)

Footnotes and references

  1. See, e.g.: Chapman, B., D Weatherburn, C.A. Kapuscinski, M. Chilvers and S. Roussel (2002). Unemployment duration, schooling and property crime. CEPR Working paper
  2. Entorf, H., H. Spengler (2002). Crime in Europe; Causes and Consequences. Springer-Verlag Berlin

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