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Book Review: Breaking and Entering: Burglars on Burglary
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Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used multiple sweeps of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, and found that alarms have become associated with increased rather than decreased risk of burglary with entry.
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Establishing Connections: Gender, Motor Vehicle Theft, and Disposal Networks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the gendered nature of motor vehicle theft through direct comparison of in-depth interviews with 35 men and women actively involved in auto theft in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Managing Victim Confrontation: Auto Theft and Informal Sanction Threats
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how offenders manage the prospect of victim confrontation during auto theft and found that victim confrontation is an informal sanction that is distinct from both retaliation and traditional extralegal sanctions, and that the rarity with which it occurs in auto theft is likely due to confrontation avoidance measures offenders adopt at the front end of the offense and during the enactment process itself.
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Criminal experience and perceptions of risk: what auto thieves fear when stealing cars
Heith Copes,Richard Tewksbury +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how experience shapes auto thieves' perceptions of the risks of stealing cars and found that experienced offenders were more concerned with being confronted (and possibly injured) by owners, while novices were more likely to be sanctioned by family members.
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Preventing phone theft and robbery: the need for government action and international coordination
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a set of responses to be adopted by national governments with international coordination, where the user remotely disables a handset and deletes data and the system is monitored.
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On-line Activities, Guardianship, and Malware Infection: An Examination of Routine Activities Theory
Adam M. Bossler,Thomas J. Holt +1 more
TL;DR: The growth and penetration of computer technology in modern life has provided criminals with efficient tools to commit crime by providing opportunities to commit crimes that could not exist without cyberspace.
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A Crime Script Analysis of the Online Stolen Data Market
Alice Hutchings,Thomas J. Holt +1 more
TL;DR: The work in this article was supported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division (DHSS and T/CSD) Broad Agency Announcement 11.02, the Government of Australia and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific (N66001-13-C-0131 to A.H.
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Victims' routine activities and sex offenders' target selection scripts: a latent class analysis
TL;DR: The scripts identified appeared to be used by both sexual aggressor of children and sexual aggressors of adults, and a high proportion of crime switching was found among the identified scripts.
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Co-offending and the choice of target areas in burglary
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether solitary offenders choose their target areas differently from the way offender groups do, and found that solitary burglars and burglar groups seem to agree on what constitutes an attractive target area, because no evidence for the postulated differences between them is found.
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime *
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the limitations of previous studies using a multimethods approach, which involves the analyses of national survey data and in-depth interviews with active street offenders.