Home Security Systems: Effective Home Security Solutions to the Increased Home Burglary incidents
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Home Security Systems: Effective Home Security Solutions to the Increased Home Burglary Incidents
Introduction
The Federal Bureau Investigation-FBI (2012) highlights that burglary incidents have skyrocketed by 7% in the past decade to record a high of 2,159, 878 incidents. Besides the loss of valuable property, home burglary often results to physical assaults, increased rape incidents and immense psychological trauma. The increased incidents highlight that the impact of burglary effects is high, hence the need for people to protect their homes from burglary. This makes burglary the most pertinent home security issue. In response to the increased burglary, most people have been focusing on installing alarm systems, with the expectation that they will deter over 85% burglary attempts as statistically justified. However, as Capel (2009) highlights, the persistent and increased burglary incidents show the ineffectiveness of a burglary alarm system as a standalone system for home security. Ideally, he highlights that people should never use the alarm system as the only home security system to ward off burglars. The rule of burglar’s modus operandi should apply. This implies assessing “the things he (burglar) looks for, how he gets in, and what he does when he’s in” (Capel, 2009, p. 2). Effectively, based on this rule, as discussed in this essay, Capel shows that an effective home security system that counters burglars should comprise a combination of security approaches, primarily a burglar alarm system, sealed access points and concealed valuable items inside the home.
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...on the alarm system and use the measures suggested to improve the protection of their homes against burglary and reduce the overall rate of home burglary and its negative effects in the country.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics. (2013). Household burglary, 1994-2011. Retrieved from http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4657
Capel, V. (2009). Home security: Alarms, sensors and systems. Melbourne: Newness.
Federal Bureau Investigation. (2012). Burglary. Retrieved from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/property-crime/burglarymain
The State University of New Jersey. (2013). Rutgers study finds alarm systems are valuable crime fighting tool: Study links burglary reduction to increase in alarms systems. Retrieved from http://news.rutgers.edu/news-releases/2009/02/rutgers-study-finds-20090205#.UoX7ydK-rIE
...not associated with crimes. The experiment shows us that increased police presence even in no-criminogenic areas may reduce crime rate by making people aware of crimes and encouraging them to report crimes. The methodology followed in this experiments has its strengths and weaknesses. Selecting a good comparison area as a control was an excellent feature for this this experiment. However, there were many limitation to this experiment, such as the shortcoming in the analytic technique and failure in providing a definite measure of the increase in police presence. The article overall is interesting and I would recommend anyone to read it.
9. Sherman L., Gottfredson D., MacKenzie D., Eck J., Reuter P., Bushway S. Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. A Report to the United States Congress. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 1997.
This paper will provide an explanation into how differential association theory explains burglary. Burglary, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (F.B.I), considers a property crime a Type 1 Index Crime because of its potentially violent nature. The F.B.I. breaks burglary down into three sub classifications. This paper discusses the elements of the crime of burglary and what constitutes a structure or dwelling. It will discuss a brief history of the deviance, trends and rates, and how it correlates to the specific theory that this paper will also discuss.
The Hazard of Bulglarly The hazard of burglary has significant impacts on people and the
This paper is based on the analysis of the United States crime prevention programs that are being implemented at the state level, law enforcement authorities, government authorities or both. In this essay, I have critically analyzed the effectiveness of some crime prevention strategies. The effort and societies attempt to reduce victimization and stop criminal acts and crimes are known as crime prevention.
The US Department of Justice reported 6,842,590 violent crime incidents in the year 2012 or 26.1 per 1,000 incidents. (Jennifer Truman) With such high rates of violence, we need some sort of protection. The police provide safety, yes, but on average, their response time is several minutes. If you’re not lucky enough to have a crime committed against you next to a police officer, you will need a more immediate solution. I propose a firearm. A survey of felons revealed the following: Seventy-four percent of felons agreed that, “one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime.” Also, fifty-seven percent of felons polled agreed, “criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.” (James D.
Now you are going to take a look at the preventive behaviours of victimized and not victimized groups. It is obvious that in many cases the lack of protective measurements contributed somewhat to victimization. If you make a comparison between the two groups, you can see that at the time of the crime burglary victims had fewer household security measurements than not victimized. (Weinstein, 1989) As you can see there is no guarantee when or who is going to be victimized. Many will think that burglary victims’ experience does not deserve to be examined, but they are wrong. The main reason is that households are something sacred, where a family stores its memories, documents and everything else that no one different from family member deserves to see. This mean that these victims do not deserve invaded homes.
Overall, we are seeing an increase in assault/battery incidents (25%) auto thefts (17%) and financial crimes (25%). For the purpose of this assignment, I will focus on auto thefts. Motor vehicle theft is a serious property crime that accounts for 10% of all property offenses reported each year (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], 2009). Owners reported to police nearly one million stolen vehicles or one out of every 267 registered vehicles nationwide (FBI, 2009: Federal Highway Administration, 2009). Nationwide auto theft clearance rates by arrest averages 12%. (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI],
Sherman, L., Gottfredson, D., MacKenzie, D., Eck, J., Reuter, P., & Bushway, S. (1998). Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising in Brief, Report to the United States Congress. National Institute of Justice.
Ronald V Clarke originally developed the idea of situational crime prevention in the 1980’s (Brantingham & Brantingham 2005). This particular crime prevention theory addresses techniques that increase the effort required to commit the crime, increase the risks involved with committing the crime, reducing the reward gained by the offender after committing the crime, reducing the provocation between the offender and others and remove excuses (Brantingham & Brantingham 2005). Majority of crime is believed to be committed because there are no high risks of being caught and the rewards outweigh the risks (Brantingham & Brantingham 2005). Increasing the effort by controlling access to locations and target hardening can deflect many offenders, as more effort is needed to commit the crime (Brantingham & Brantingham 2005). Another main technique would be to increase the risks; this may be achieved by extending guardianship, creating natural surveillance or artificial surveillance such as CCTV (Brantingham & Brantingham 2005).
The communities, in which we live, work and raise our children demand the safest environment possible. A common approach to crime fighting is to respond after the event and incarcerate the offender. The results of this approach have been increasingly burdensome on law enforcement, th...
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There are many benefits to having law enforcement security cameras, which people take for granted, and are quick to point out the negative. Having a network of cameras on every street in the city increases the chances of preventing a crime, along with the ability to capture a criminal on video. Some people argue that the cameras generate an overwhelming amount...
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