Preventing Residential Burglary: Toward More Effective Community Programs [Paperback]

This book evaluates the newest efforts and initiative aimedat preventing burglary, discusses their merits and short-comings, and suggests how improvements might be incorporatedin burglary prevention programs.1. Burglary Prevention and Problems of Participation.- 2. Dixons Goodfields Program.- 3. Program Participation and World View.- 4. Program Participation: Attendance at Block Club Meetings.- 5. Program Participation: Property Marking, Neighborhood Watch, and Security Survey.- 6. Program Participation: Contacts and Networks.- 7. Effects of the Program.- 8. Program Participation: World Views Decay with Communication.- 9. Conclusions.- 10. Burglary Prevention: Suggestions to Programs.- Appendix A: Tables.- Appendix B: Research Methodology.- Appendix C: Laypersons Simplified Glossary.- References.Springer Book Archives