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The introduction to this book, Reducing Burglary, provides a general overview of domestic burglary, including how it is defined and measured, cross-national and other spatial comparisons of domestic burglary rates, domestic burglary trends, the impact of burglary on victims and repeat victimisation patterns. This first chapter also discusses data sources for collecting information about domestic burglary, noting in particular the value of victimisation surveys, most especially the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which is drawn on heavily in the remainder of the book. Finally, the chapter ends with an overview of the remainder of the book.

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    Therefore burglaries which escalated into a more serious offence cannot be identified as such from the publicly available data set; one would need to investigate the incident narrative to decipher how many crimes against the person were committed in the course of a burglary.

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    The NCVS before being redesigned in 1994 was called the National Crime Survey (NCS).

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    Andromachi Tseloni & Rebecca Thompson

  2. Jill Dando Institute, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, London, UK

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Tseloni, A., Thompson, R., Tilley, N. (2018). Introduction. In: Reducing Burglary. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99942-5_1

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