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Title: | Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations |
Authors: | Tilley, Nick Thompson, Rebecca Farrell, Graham Grove, Louise E. Tseloni, Andromachi |
Keywords: | Intruder alarms Domestic burglary risk Situational crime prevention |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | © Macmillan Publishers Ltd. |
Citation: | TILLEY, N. ... et al, 2015. Do burglar alarms increase burglary risk? A counter-intuitive finding and possible explanations. Crime Prevention and Community Safety: an International Journal, 17 (1), pp. 1 - 19 |
Abstract: | Burglar alarms are widely used as a means to try to reduce the risk of domestic burglary. Previous research has suggested that some burglars are deterred by alarms and that they are therefore effective. Using multiple sweeps of the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the research reported here sought to corroborate these findings. It finds that alarms have become associated with increased rather than decreased risk of burglary with entry. This counter-intuitive finding needs to be treated cautiously. A series of hypotheses that might explain it are outlined. |
Description: | This is an Open Access Article. It is published by under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
Sponsor: | This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council Secondary Data Analysis Initiative Phase 1 grant (project REF: ESRC-SDAI) [grant numbers ES/K003771/1 and ES/K003771/2]. |
Version: | Published |
DOI: | 10.1057/cpcs.2014.17 |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16638 |
Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/cpcs.2014.17 |
ISSN: | 1743-4629 |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles (Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies)
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