Author: Frederick W. SidneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Brixton Burglary
Author: Frederick W. SidneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Green Book Magazine
Author: Life
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Life
Author: John Ames MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Cambridge Review
Author: The Sketch
Author: Dramatic Criticism
Author: Jack Thomas GreinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
1897-1899
Author: Jack Thomas GreinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Coping with Burglary
Author: R.V.G. ClarkePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400956525
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This book contains the papers given at a workshop organised by the Home Office (England and Wales) on the subject of residential burglary. This is a topic of much public concern, and I welcome the Home Office initiative in mounting the workshop. The contributors were all researchers and crim inologists who have made a special study of burglary, and their brief was to consider the implications of their work for policy. As a policeman, I find their work of particular interest and relevance at this time when police per formance, as traditionally measured by the clear-up rate, is not keeping pace with the increase in the numbers of burglaries coming to police attention. The finding that increases in burglary are more reflective of the public's reporting habits than of any significant rise in the actual level of burglary helps with perspective but offers little comfort to policemen. The 600/0 in crease in the official statistics since 1970 is accompanied by a proportionate increase in police work in visiting victims, searching scenes of crime, writing crime reports, and completing other documentation. In some forces the point has been reached where available detective time is so taken up by the volume of visits and reports that there is little remaining for actual in vestigation. But because of the random and opportunist nature of burglary, it cannot be said with any confidence that increasing investigative capacity would make a significant and lasting impact on the overall burglary figures.
The Burglar in the Bin Bag
Author: Arthur GoldstuckPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 0143527827
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Arthur Goldstuck - South Africa's urban legends guru - returns with a definitive guide to the hoaxes and rumours that have terrified and confused South Africans over the last twenty years. Why did an estimated 10 000 South Africans go on 'holiday' to Zimbabwe in April 1994? Who, exactly, decided that needles covered in AIDS-infected blood were being left on cinema seats in Cape Town in 1999? How did it come to be reported in several reputable newspapers that the South African government was considering cancelling Christmas in August 2004? Whatever happened to the ' tornado' that was supposed to descend on Johannesburg and Pretoria to devastating effect on 8 October 2007? Did the 100 000 women and children set to be trafficked into South Africa for the 2010 World Cup actually arrive? Have you ever cleared your driveway of 'colour-coded' rubbish, held back from flashing your lights at someone for fear of becoming a victim of a gang initiation rite or forwarded an email about child abduction to your friends and family? If so, have you ever wondered about the origins of these warnings? In this new book, Arthur Goldstuck not only traces the evolution of these urban legends but also digs deep into the human psyche to explain why it is that we are drawn into believing and passing on these warnings even when incontrovertible proof exists that they are false.
