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Break-Ins: Burglary from Private Houses
By: Dermot Walsh
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The effects of a burglary can be shattering. Though the value of goods stolen is often trifling, the sense of intrusion, violation and disturbance can linger for months afterwards. Worse still, the victims sometimes feel that they have been singled out. In extensive interviews with both burglars and victims, Dermot Walsh, a criminologist, sets out to discover why people take up burglary as a 'career' (when nowadays there are quicker, more lucrative forms of crime), whether burglars can be categorised into different types according to their motivation, and whether there are certain types of persons or dwellings who or which are more likely to be burgled than others. Most people like to think that they have been burgled by a 'professional', but his findings reveal that this type is very much in decline: instead most burglaries from private houses today are carried out by children in search of cash, and most burglars enter round the back. Children are undiscriminating in their choice of household-though there is indeed a type of household more likely to be burgled than others.
