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Which Motorists Should Be Most Concerned When Parking? A truck is stolen from the parking lot of a hotel. Inside it are three presidential seals, three lecterns, and $200,000 worth of electronic equipment, including a teleprompter. The truck is recovered a few hours later—it was abandoned in the parking lot of another hotel and looted […]

Trends in Motor Vehicle Theft Changes in motor vehicle theft rates over the past few decades are shown in Figure 4.5. One trend line, based on NCVS findings, portrays yearly rates of thefts of noncommercial vehicles disclosed to survey interviewers, whether successful comple- tions or failed attempts, for every 1,000 house- holds. The other trend

FOCUSING ON MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT Stealing Cars for Fun and Profit About 556,000 households suffered a vehicle theft (or an attempted vehicle theft) during 2013, a slight bump up from previous years, according to the NCVS. That volume of incidents translated to a rate of a little more than five vehicle thefts for every 1,000

Trends and Patterns in Burglaries The changes in the burglary rate over a 30-year span appear in Figure 4.4. Residents of nearly 2.5 million households told NCVS interviewers in 2013 that someone had tried or had succeeded in entering their home to steal things. This translates to a rate of 26 for every 1,000 households,

FOCUSING ON BURGLARIES Burglaries are the most common of all serious crimes tracked by the FBI. Larcenies, which are thefts of all kinds, are more numerous, but more than half were just petty larcenies resulting in minor losses. Burglaries of residences resulted in substantial losses, averaging over $2,100 in 2013, according to the UCR (FBI,

Carjacked Drivers In the movies, as well as in real life, motorists are yanked out of their cars and trucks by highwaymen who hop in behind the wheel and make a quick getaway. In the early 1990s, the catchy term carjacking was coined to describe the robbery of a motor vehicle directly from a driver,

Differential Risks: Which Groups Get Robbed the Most and the Least Often? To discover patterns in robberies, researchers must sort through data collected each year about various groupings of people and households that participated in the NCVS survey. According to the NCVS for 2013, the robbery rate was 2.4 per 1,000. That means just about

Checking Out Whether More Robberies Are Turning into Murders One bit of good news about robbery is often over- looked: Most victims are not injured, and of those who are, most don’t need medical attention in an emergency room. And yet, because robbery is such a potentially devastating crime, a troubling question ought to arise:

Changes over Time in Robbery Rates Robbery is often cited as the offense most people worry about when they express their fears about street crime. Robbery is a confrontational crime in which force is used, or violence is threatened (…“or else”). Figure 4.3 displays the trends in rob- bery rates according to UCR and NCVS

Robbers and the People They Prey Upon Completed robberies are face-to-face confrontations in which perpetrators take something of value directly from victims against their will, either by force or by threats of violence. Whether the holdup is completed or just attempted, the law considers armed robberies more serious than unarmed ones (strong-arm robberies, muggings, or