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FOCUSING ON INDIVIDUALS WHOSE IDENTITIES WERE STOLEN The crime of identity theft undermines the basic trust on which our economy depends. When a person takes out an insurance policy, or makes an online purchase or opens a savings account, he or she must have confidence that personal financial information will be protected and treated with […]

Clark and Harris, 1992; NICB Study, 1993; and Krauss, 1994). Finally, to make matters more complex, the desirability of particular vehicles on the black market varies around the country. For example, thieves concentrated on Japanese models in Los Angeles, pickup trucks in Dallas, and American sedans in Chicago, reflecting the preferences of consumers in those

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: