burglary
tlambert | March 11, 1997Steve Fischer wrote:
Place a large placard either in the window of your home/apt or
on a sign on the grass saying:
THIS IS A GUN-FREE HOME
..... then let's wait a couple of months and see how many of those
homes get burglarized.
Martin Gleeson writes:
Here's one for the anti-gun-control advocates. Put up a big sign saying:
GUNS KEPT HERE
and see how many of these homes gets burglarized.
Bert Hyman writes:
It seems that you've managed to miss the entire point of this little exercise.
Nope. I'm well aware of the pro-gunners claim that their guns protect
everyone from burglary. Whether or…
tlambert | August 3, 1996Mark Gibson writes:
And Waller and Okihiro (1978, p. 31) reported
that 44% of burglarized Toronto residences were occupied during the
burglaries, with 21% of the burglaries resulting in confrontations between
victim and offender.
Waller and Okihiro did not have enough money to conduct a full victim
survey of Toronto, so concentrated on some high crime areas. Their
results do not necessarily generalize to the whole city. A full
victim survey of Edmonton in 1987 found an at-home rate of 10%, which
is less than that for the US.
That would not explain why at-home burglary rates appear to be…
tlambert | March 22, 1993Jim De Arras said:
Well, Mr. Lambert, lets have the numbers for .au, and see where the trend leads
us.
Here are all the numbers I have.
Country % at-home % gun homicide
burglaries ownership rate
Netherlands 48 2 0.9
England 26-59 5 0.7
Australia 10 20 2.0
Canada 10 31 2.1
USA 14 49 8.8
The Australian "at-home" burglary rate is actually for Victoria. The
range given for England is because the rate is 59% for attempted
burglaries and 26% for completed burglaries,…
tlambert | March 21, 1993Jim De Arras said:
60% of all house burglaries in GB occur while the house is
occupied. Less than
10% here. More than 50% of homes here have firearms, less than 5% there.
I've proven that the mere existence without use of most guns in
homes in the USA makes even your gunless home safer to sleep in than
homes in GB.
Let's see: Your proof goes:
(1) Gun ownership is greater in the US than in GB.
(2) "At-home" burglaries are more common in GB than in the US.
Therefore:
(3) Gun ownership deters "at-home" burglary.
We also have:
(4) Gun ownership is greater in the US than in Canada.
(5) "At-…
tlambert | December 9, 1992The percentage of at-home burglaries is
higher in the US (14%) than it is in Canada (10%). If guns account
for the difference it is because US burglars are more likely to be
armed and feel that they can take on the residents.
US data comes from the National Crime Survey 1979-87. In 14.7% of
residential burglaries there was someone at home at the time. (Cited
in "Crime and Justice: A Review of Research" v14 p56) The Canadian
figure is for Edmonton in 1987 from "Canadian Urban Victimization
Survey #9". OK, the numbers are not strictly comparable, since one is
for an Canadian urban area,…
tlambert | June 17, 1992The Terminator said:
In England, the percentage of burglaries committed when the occupants
are at home is something like 30%, while in the US, it's around 9%.
Let me add two more data points that I was able to find:
Canada (Edmonton) 10% (Canadian Urban Victimization Survey #9) and
Australia (Victoria) <10% (Burglary, a Social Reality).
Obviously, no conclusions about cause and
effect can be reached by looking at these stats alone, however, the
desired conclusion can be reached by looking at how jailed perps responded
in interviews. Fear of encountering an armed victim WAS important to…