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Conclusions: Reducing Burglary – Summing Up

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This book presented original and innovative research which has direct practical and policy implications for burglary security. The concluding chapter provides a synthesis of the research evidence discussed in the previous chapters addressing three broad themes: burglary trends and patterns, which security devices work and how and burglary prevention lessons. The chapter ends with suggestions for future research.

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    Please see evidence for the Netherlands by Vollaard and Van Ours (2011) and De Waard (2015) and for Chile by Ojeda (2015).

  2. 2.

    The most prominent were digital locks and caretakers which are more common in French apartments (than houses and hardly exist in the UK).

  3. 3.

    As 85 percent of households in England and Wales live in houses, the contradictory finding in relation to this type of housing between the two countries is not a statistical artefact.

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    Apart from a conference presentation mentioned in Chap. 5 (Tseloni 2011), to date such analyses have tested the effects of routine activities and social disorganisation on burglary victimisation but have not specifically examined the independent effects of particular security devices and their combinations (Tseloni 2006).

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  1. Quantitative and Spatial Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Andromachi Tseloni & Rebecca Thompson

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

    Nick Tilley

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Tseloni, A., Thompson, R., Tilley, N. (2018). Conclusions: Reducing Burglary – Summing Up. In: Reducing Burglary. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99942-5_10

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